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The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by TC Energy (then TransCanada) in 2008, was initially designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market—and fast.
Keystone XL – the 2,000 mile tar sands pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf Coast – sparked an escalating debate in recent months, with both sides sparring over the consequences for energy security, jobs, public health and environmental safety.
WASHINGTON (TND) — In 2021, President Joe Biden canceled the completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was expected to carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to the United States.
MYTH #2: Keystone XL will improve America’s energy security. FACT : The Keystone XL pipeline is designed for one thing—to send oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf coast, and from there to overseas markets.
The Keystone pipeline, which President Joe Biden canceled, would have transported more oil per day than the U.S. imports from Russia, but it would not have been a simple offset.
Keystone pipeline, petroleum pipeline that stretches 2,687 miles (4,324 km) across Canada and parts of the continental United States and is designed to deliver oil recovered from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, with petroleum terminals in Houston, Texas, and Patoka, Illinois, in the United States.
A planned 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipeline running from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would join an existing pipe. It could carry 830,000 barrels of oil each...