Where is keystone pipeline oil going

On the campaign trail, Biden vowed to cancel the Keystone XL cross-border permit should he win the presidency—and on his first day in office, he made good on that promise. In June, TC Energy announced that it was abandoning its plans for building the pipeline for good—putting an end to a fossil fuel project that had loomed over waterways, communities, and the climate for more than a decade.

While the tar sands industry was once seen as an unbeatable opponent in a David-and-Goliath fight, the victory against Keystone XL shows that the tables have begun to turn—and that more power now lies with the advocates for climate justice than ever before.

This story was originally published on April 7, and has been updated with new information and links. The notorious tar sands pipeline was a lightning rod in the fight against climate change and the seemingly unstoppable oil industry.

Frontline Indigenous youth, who have been standing up against destructive oil pipelines for years, are imploring President Biden to join them in protecting their water, lands, and cultures. Historic flooding recently inundated parts of the Cornhusker State where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would pass through.

The people and the planet can claim more than a few victories—and is looking better already. How an unlikely coalition of environmental activists stopped the destructive tar sands oil pipeline. For more than a decade, we've fought to keep this filthy fossil fuel from being dredged up and piped through the United States.

DAPL may be underway, but the water protectors at Standing Rock taught us a lot about going up against the fossil fuel industry. Yes, Trump has green-lighted the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. This dirty, dangerous oil, which is almost impossible to clean and affects the health of people, is bad news for our country—and the planet.

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Remember the Kalamazoo. It would mirror an existing pipe, also called Keystone, but would take a more direct route, boosting the flow of oil from Canada. At the coast there are additional refineries and ports from which the oil can be exported. The pipeline was set to be privately financed, with the cost of construction shared between TransCanada, an energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, and other oil shippers. US-produced oil would also be transported by Keystone XL, albeit in smaller quantities than Canadian.

Canada already sends , barrels of oil per day to the US via the existing Keystone pipeline. The oil fields in Alberta are landlocked and as they are further developed require means of access to international markets. Many of North America's oil refineries are based in the Gulf Coast, and industry groups on both sides of the border want to benefit.

An increased supply of oil from Canada would mean a decreased dependency on Middle Eastern supplies. According to market principles, increased availability of oil means lower prices for consumers. Factors such as direct vs. The State Department released a report in March stating that the pipeline could directly or indirectly create up to 42, jobs, including 3, construction jobs.

Many critics of Keystone XL worry it will have harmful environmental impacts. The Sierra Club has said it opposes the specific use of tar sands, which is found in the deposits in Canada. The scientific name for tar sand is bitumen , a mixture of clay, sand, water, and oil that with modern technology can be refined into usable oil. Critics say that it is more corrosive than conventional oil.

It is this corrosiveness that has some concerned about leaks in the pipeline. For evidence against the transport of tar sands crude, environmentalists point to an event in May , when 21, gallons of oil leaked in North Dakota. This was also due to a faulty valve.

The State Department says the maximum amount of spillage in a worst-case-scenario of a Keystone Pipeline leak is 2. TransCanada points out that this is significantly smaller than the amount that escaped during the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The pipe was decades old. The pipeline is often compared to another one built by the Canadian energy company Enbridge, which also transports tar sands crude into the U. Despite her claim, Enbridge is not without heavy public scrutiny. Thousands of gallons of oil sands crude flowed into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The event caused the EPA to recommend to the State Department that pipelines carrying tar sands be regulated differently than pipelines that carry other types of oil.

Environmentalists also point to the process of refining tar sands oil, saying it will create large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, though the exact percentage increase is debated. The report found that the pipeline would not have a significant impact on climate change because tar sands oil will be extracted regardless of whether or not the pipeline is built. Courtesy the Keystone Mapping Project. Some Texans oppose the pipeline.

One of them is farmer Julia Trigg Crawford. After Crawford declined to sign an agreement with the company, they used eminent domain to gain access to her land. She responded by filing a temporary restraining order. Shortly after that, TransCanada announced it would start construction on the southern leg of the pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

In late July, the Trump administration approved the existing Keystone pipeline to ship 29 per cent more Canadian crude into the U. Midwest and Gulf Coast. If the Keystone XL was there, [we would] definitely use it, but if it's not there, then there are other ways to get to market," Braziel said. Andrew Lipow, CEO of Lipow Oil Associates, a petroleum consulting firm based in Houston, Texas, said the Keystone XL pipeline certainly could have been used to increase crude oil production that ultimately would have been delivered to U.

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