The Keystone XL pipe loaded politically is back at the Center for Attention, with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, launching the company behind the project to return to the US. UU. And “confuse it, now!”
“I know they were treated very badly by the dream Joe Biden, but the Trump administration is very different: easy approvals, almost immediate start!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Monday night.
The pipe of approximately 1,900 kilometers was designed to carry oil from northern Alberta to the west of the United States.
The Keystone XL project has a Long and tumultuous historydating back to when it was first proposed in 2008. It was blocked Under the administration of Obama, then revived by Trump during his first term in the Oval office, only to be killed again by President Joe Biden on his first day at work.
Last month, Trump terminated an executive order of the Biden era that revoked a permit for the project, Bloomberg news He informed, in theory, to open the door for the project to be resurrected.
South Bow, the company that TC Energy turned to manage its pipeline, has said that you are no longer interested.
“We have gone from the Keystone XL project,” said spokeswoman Katie Stavinoha in a statement.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is talking about reliving the Keystone XL pipe, even when it threatens to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. Richard Masson, an executive member of the School of Public Policies of the University of Calgary, says that many US refineries can only process the type of crude oil that Canada provides, so a commercial war would also damage US consumers.
‘What does he want?’
Trump’s enthusiasm for the project has left some scratches about his best game plan for Canadian energy, since he is still threatening 10 percent rate In Canadian crude oil, in force in early March.
“The big question is: what does the administration really want?” James Coleman said Professor of Energy Law at the University of Minnesota.
Rafi Tahmazian, an energy manager retired from Canoe Financial, suggested that Trump could be reacting to the recently floated idea that Canada review plans For an East energy pipe.
“He is concerned that if we build a pipe to the east, we begin to consider sending our oil to other places and reducing our dependence on the United States,” Tahmazian said. “And that is a big problem for their refiners and the products they produce for the United States”
Tahmazian says that Keystone XL has become a metaphor. For Trump, he said, it is not both the specific project and the general concept of building a pipe to obtain more crude oil in the United States.
“He is only rummaging and saying: ‘I want to give them the opportunity to recognize that there is the opportunity to market that oil for us too,” Tahmazian said. “And he used the term Keystone as the vehicle for everyone to realize.”
In a statement, Carolyn Svonkin, spokesman for the Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, said Canada is open to a “productive conversation” on the subject, but said that a private sector partner would be needed to advance the project.
“A proponent of the private sector would need to take a step forward to advance the project, and currently there is no one expressing that they would do it,” said Svonkin.
Trump did not appoint a specific company in its publication, and suggested that if the original company behind the project did not chase it, then perhaps “another company of pipes” would.
‘Challenging idea’
Even with Trump’s support, the project could face obstacles.
Dennis McConaghy, a former TC energy executive who was involved with the original plans of the pipeline, said that during the previous Trump administration, the opponents of the project He used the courts To fight it, what could be a problem again this time.
“It’s a very challenging idea,” he said.
Caroline Bouillette, Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, said she does not believe that such a project can or should materialize.
“Canada should accelerate the transformation of our economy away from these very volatile fuels and rather duplicate the clean energy sector,” he said.
In a statement, Lisa Baiton, president and executive director of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, did not directly mention the Keystone XL pipe. But he said that Canada must do two things: preserve its integrated energy trade with the USA and make a “internal policy restart” that will attract a greater investment in “nation’s construction infrastructure projects.”
The objective, he said in the statement, is “diversifying our markets of Canadian products and rates proof in our country.”
In X, Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith gave an enthusiastic tone about Trump’s tone, saying that he agreed that the project should not have been discarded first.
“We also discard these inflationary rates ideas and focus on obtaining shovels on the floor immediately!” She wrote.
Saskatchewan’s prime minister Scott Moe also intervened in X, saying that the path to the “domain of continental energy” is increasing non -objective trade in North America.
“This includes the construction of new pipes such as Keystone XL.”
