A very alarmist view. This extension pipeline was never started, no sections have been completed. Obama cancelled it in 2015, Trump cynically reversed that just a few weeks ago as a grenade to lob into the Oval office on his departure. He knew Biden would quickly ban it, but did it as a spiteful action. Every expert considers the product to be the dirtiest fossil fuel available, with the oil industry contracting, it would be a poor choice when there is plentiful cleaner oil from other sources.glalt wrote: ↑February 13, 2021, 11:04 amCancelling the XL Pipeline is going to make more lawyers rich. I would expect hundreds of huge law suits asking for damages because of Biden's stroke of the pen. Who is going to pay for the billions of dollars already invested? What will happen to the sections already completed? Will Canada try to recover their investment and damages to their economy? Will the railroads build more oil tankers to transport their Canadian oil? Will the cancelled coal fired power generating plants start back up? How is the cancellation going to affect global warming? The bottom line is that this is going to be a MASSIVE can of worms that will no doubt backfire big time.
Since it was announced in 2008, it was always an environmentally challenging project. No coal powered generation plants were decommissioned in anticipation of the project, which would have taken years to complete. Yes it would have created short term jobs, but those can easily be diverted to more sustainable energy developments.
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