Biden is going to close the Keystone XL oil pipeline

According to North American media, the newly elected American president Joe Biden has decided to shut down the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline on its first day in office.

Biden will return the US to a climate agreement

The pipeline is to transport oil from the Canadian province of Alberta to Nebraska. Environmentalists and Native American organizations have been fighting the project for more than a decade. Work on the pipeline was suspended, but resumed in 2019 as President Donald Trump overturned a decision by his predecessor, Barack Obama, to veto a law approving construction in 2015. The report from the meeting, which is available to the Canadian and American media, said before that the president's order to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline will be signed during the inauguration day. At the same time, Biden will return the US to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, thus changing the next step of Trump, who decided to withdraw from the agreement.

The Canadian province is announcing legal action

However, the Prime Minister of the Canadian province of Alberta, Jason Kenney, said that he was "seriously concerned" by reports of Biden's plans to cancel the pipeline, adding that if the pipeline project stopped, his government would take legal action. The Keystone XL pipeline is to carry approximately 830,000 barrels of heavy oil from tar sands daily. Environmentalist organizations, such as Greenpeace, say the amount of greenhouse gases emitted per barrel of tar sands oil could be 30 percent higher than conventional oil. However, the Canadian government argues that technologies have created more efficient practices and reduced climate-damaging emissions.