President Donald Trump on Monday called to revive the Keystone XL pipeline project that was abandoned in 2021.
The canceled Keystone XL was supposed to be a 1,200-mile oil pipeline that shipped crude from Canadian oil sands to Nebraska. Politics and backlash from environmentalists mired the project’s necessary permits in bureaucratic limbo.
“Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just thinking, that the company building the Keystone XL Pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden Administration should come back to America, and get it built — NOW!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday.
“I know they were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!” he added.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also pushed for the Keystone XL project to be restarted during an interview on Fox News on Monday.
“We want the Keystone XL pipeline built,” she said.
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Construction on the pipeline began in 2010 but stalled in 2015 when then-President Barack Obama revoked a key permit under pressure from environmentalists. Trump revived the project during his first term, only for former President Joe Biden to revoke the permit again on the first day of his term.
TC Energy, the company behind the project, confirmed in a June 9, 2021 press release that the pipeline had been terminated.
South Bow Corp., a spinoff of TC Energy, has said it has no interest in reviving the dead pipeline project. Sections of the pipeline that had been constructed have been taken apart since the company announced the project’s end, according to Bloomberg.
“We continue to engage with customers to develop options to increase Canadian oil supplies to meet growing US demand,” South Bow spokeswoman Katie Stavinoha said.