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The pipeline was shut down in the U.S. by the Biden Administration. The U.S. portion of the Keystone Pipeline included 1,744 kilometres (1,084 mi) of new, 30-inch-diameter (760 mm) pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. [28] The pipeline has a minimum ground cover of 4 feet (1.2 m). [29]
HOUSTON (Reuters) -A looming labor dispute at Canada's two main railroads is unlikely to significantly reduce oil exports to the United States due to excess capacity on Trans Mountain and other ...
On some weeks, the fires in Alberta burned so close that oil companies had to temporarily shut down oil and gas production, and average Canadians couldn’t safely breathe the air. Still, Canadian ...
January 7 - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on Canada to immediately stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) and Trans Mountain pipelines and the Site C dam. [2] January 7 - Individuals sabotage three junctions in Hamilton, Ontario shutting down all rail traffic in and out of the city. [3]
In 2018, the backers of the pipeline project gave the go-ahead to the CA$6.6 billion project and it began construction. Access to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline construction camps in Wetʼsuwetʼen territory was blocked and the Coastal GasLink project was granted an injunction in 2018 to remove the land defenders.
Canadian firm TC Energy proposed the Keystone XL pipeline in 2008, as a way to ship more oil from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska, where it would then enter existing pipelines for final transport to ...
On October 11, five members of Climate Direct Action simultaneously turned emergency shut-off valves in four American states. This was the largest valve-turning action to date, temporarily disabling pipelines providing about 15% of America's daily oil consumption. [3] Michael Foster turned a valve in North Dakota near the Canadian border.
The pipeline was the primary reason that the Port of Portland had the largest volume oil port on the Eastern Seaboard, as more than 200 tankers delivered oil to the pipeline marine terminal annually. [5] In January 2016, the pipeline flow was slowed to a trickle. Its volume had been decreasing for several years.