WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s campaign lobbed a spanner into Alberta’s post-pandemic economic recovery strategy Monday with a promise to rip up U.S. President Donald Trump’s approvals for the Keystone XL pipeline if the former vice-president succeeds in taking over the White House next year.
“Stopping Keystone was the right decision then and it’s still the right decision now. In fact, it’s even more important today,” policy director Stef Feldman said in a written statement, first reported by Politico. TC Energy spokesman Terry Cunha issued a statement late Monday that ignored the comments from the Biden campaign, instead extolling the virtues of Keystone XL as an engine of investment and jobs growth “in a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty and unemployment.”
The $8-billion U.S. expansion, long a central element of efforts in Canada to expand export markets for Canadian fossil fuel, has been beset by delays, protests and injunctions almost since its inception. It became a major flashpoint in 2011 when celebrity-studded protests outside the White House helped crystallize environmental opposition to the energy sector.
In the meantime, Keystone XL has come to define the widening fissure between an energy industry that’s straining to redefine its mission in the 21st century and growing public opposition to North America’s dependency on fossil fuels — a tension that has created deep-seated political challenges in Canada, where the oilpatch is central to the country’s economic fortunes.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has committed $1.5 billion to the expansion, along with a $6-billion loan guarantee, as his United Conservative government extends outreach efforts in the U.S. in hopes of breathing new life into a sector hit hard in recent months by record-low oil prices and the economic impact of COVID-19.
Biden looks as though he is a thoroughly confused octogenarian wondering if he soiled himself today.
Alzheimers do be like that
Just politician, not surprising!
Call me ignorant by why the F are these refineries at opposite ends of the continent? We just approved the shipment of barrels all the way down to the Panama Canal and back up just to get them from Calgary to NS. It’s absurd.
Yet people in Canada prefer him lol
Here's Joe addressing the nation.
Hey there creep joe.... you won’t be around long. Stop making promises.
As they approved enough new pipelines to go around the world the only one Obama-Biden denied, was Keystone.
Creepy Joe Biden vows to rip up his Babysitting and hair sniffing career if elected.
He will have to come out of his basement to do that
Not too worried, as he should probably focus on all the sexual assault cases being brought forth his involvement with Obamagate or his sons financial connections to China&Russia, yeah dont think he will get the job, maybe he should go to jail js
Anyone against oil is a TRAITOR against our modern way of life, economy, and hard working people. Anyone taking an anti-oil position must be banned from ever holding office.
Sad and clueless old man.
Thank you, Joe!
Because in his globalist world oil independence doesn’t help enriching the Middle East so we can satisfy the military industrial complex with wars. Oil independence is a 75 yr triumph for Trump. Doesn’t sit well for the master puppets whose agenda depends on a rich ME poor USA
Biden himself is one missed medication time away from stumbling onto camera with his bathrobe open.
If he remembers
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