Bloomberg Law
Jan. 20, 2021, 10:42 PM

Biden Blocking Keystone Threatens to End Mega Pipelines Era (1)

Gerson Freitas Jr.
Gerson Freitas Jr.
Bloomberg News
Rachel Adams-Heard
Rachel Adams-Heard
Bloomberg News
Ellen Gilmer
Ellen Gilmer
Bloomberg Law

Joe Biden’s move to block the $9 billion Keystone XL project is the clearest sign yet that constructing a major new pipeline in the U.S. has become an impossible task.

The incoming president has pledged to reshape the U.S. energy sector and accelerate the transition from fossil fuels, and the cancellation of the proposed link to Canada’s oil sands will be one of his first big environmental actions.

Even before Biden’s inauguration Wednesday, the oil and gas industry was on its back foot when it came to building major new infrastructure. Despite Donald Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies, energy companies such ...

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