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9 juin 2021 'Keystone XL Is Dead!': After 10-Year Battle, Climate Movement Victory Is Complete. After more than a decade of grassroots organizing, agitation, and tireless opposition by the international climate movement, the final nail was slammed into the Keystone XL's coffin Wednesday afternoon when the company behind the transnational tar sands pipeline officially pulled the plug on its plans.

9 juin 2021 'Keystone XL Is Dead!': After 10-Year Battle, Climate Movement Victory Is Complete

"This victory is thanks to Indigenous land defenders who fought the Keystone XL pipeline for over a decade. " —Clayton Thomas Muller, 350.org Following consultation with Canadian officials and regulators—including "its partner, the Government of Alberta"—TC Energy confirmed its "termination" of the project in a statement citing the revocation of a federal U.S. permit by President Joe Biden on his first day in office on January 20 as the leading reason.

Climate campaigners, however, were immediate in claiming a final victory after years of struggle against the company and its backers both in Washington, D.C. and Ottawa. "When this fight began, people thought Big Oil couldn't be beat. " Police discussed stopping Keystone XL protesters ‘by any means’ This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Police discussed stopping Keystone XL protesters ‘by any means’

U.S. law enforcement officials preparing for fresh Keystone XL pipeline protests have privately discussed tactics to stop activists “by any means” and have labeled demonstrators potential “domestic terrorism” threats, records reveal. Internal government documents seen by the Guardian show that police and local authorities in Montana and the surrounding region have been preparing a coordinated response in the event of a new wave of protests opposing the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canada to Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. At Standing Rock, law enforcement organized repeated rounds of mass arrests and filed a wide array of serious charges in local and federal courts against activists. Police also deployed water cannons, teargas grenades, bean bag rounds, and other weapons, causing serious injuries to protesters. U.S. TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline was flailing. Trump just revived it. Tell the Nebraska Public Service Commission: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline.

TransCanada: If we can’t build Keystone, we want $15 billion. TransCanada isn’t taking no for an answer.

TransCanada: If we can’t build Keystone, we want $15 billion

In November, President Obama rejected the company’s plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Now the company is fighting that decision, just as it had threatened to do: It’s suing America and seeking $15 billion in damages. On Wednesday, TransCanada filed suit in a U.S. court in Texas, arguing that Obama didn’t have constitutional authority to deny a permit for the pipeline.

It also announced its intention to file a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement, seeking monetary compensation. As The Wall Street Journal explains, “The company, which has spent $3.1 billion on the project already including on pipe and payments to landowners, said the $15 billion damage claim includes compensation for foregone tolls and other profit it otherwise would have earned.” Of course, oil prices are so low today that it doesn’t make much financial sense to mine the Alberta tar sands anymore. No, Obama did not veto the Keystone XL pipeline. Normal people, who don’t follow every torturous twist and turn in the never-ending Keystone XL saga, would be forgiven for misunderstanding Tuesday’s news when they saw “Obama” and “veto” and “Keystone” in the headlines.

No, Obama did not veto the Keystone XL pipeline

Despite that confluence of words, Obama did not in fact veto the Keystone XL pipeline. Rather, he vetoed a bill from Congress that would have forced approval of the pipeline project, but he did this because he wants to retain the power to make the Keystone decision himself — and he could still decide either way. The people who should understand this, and who should be particularly conscientious about helping other people understand this, are green group activists fighting the pipeline — like, say, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

Barack Obama met son veto au projet d’oléoduc géant Keystone. Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Bill, The Third Veto Of His Presidency. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama formally vetoed legislation authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday, the latest development in what has become an ongoing standoff between him and congressional Republicans over approval of the controversial pipeline.

Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Bill, The Third Veto Of His Presidency

This is only the third veto of Obama's presidency, but it's likely not the last. Congressional Republicans are poised to send a number of other measures to Obama's desk that he is expected to reject, including changes to his signature health care reform law. Obama vetoed the bill on Tuesday afternoon, hours after it was sent over from the Hill. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in the day's press briefing that the president planned to veto it "without any drama or fanfare or delay. " Congress will soon approve Keystone, say Republicans. The new Republican Senate leadership seems to be holding true to its word: Approval for the Keystone XL pipeline will top the 2015 legislative agenda.

Congress will soon approve Keystone, say Republicans

The head of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), plans to hold a hearing on the pipeline on Wednesday and introduce a bill to approve it on Thursday. President Obama: Veto the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Keystone XL Pipeline would accelerate climate change and put the environment at risk, but Republican Congressional leaders are pledging to send legislation approving the project to the President’s desk in the next Congress.

President Obama: Veto the Keystone XL Pipeline

We need to stand together and stop it before we’re too late. Climate change is already harming the farms, forests and other natural resources our economy depends on, and this project will only make climate change worse. Lame-duck Democratic senators stop the Keystone bill. Will Obama follow their lead? A Senate bill to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline failed on Tuesday night, coming up one vote short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster threat.

Lame-duck Democratic senators stop the Keystone bill. Will Obama follow their lead?

All day Monday and Tuesday, congressional reporters were tweeting up a storm about whether bill sponsor Mary Landrieu (D-La.) would have the votes she needed. She ended up with only 59. All 45 Senate Republicans voted for the bill, even supposed climate hawk Susan Collins (R-Maine). So did a mostly predictable group of moderate Democrats from red, purple, and fossil fuel–producing states: Mark Begich (Alaska), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Bob Casey (Penn.), Tom Carper (Del.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Kay Hagan (N.C.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Jon Tester (Mont.), John Walsh (Mont.), and Mark Warner (Va.).

The only surprising vote among them is Carper, who is from a staunchly Democratic state. The top 3 flaws with the State Dept.’s Keystone study. When the State Department issued its environmental impact statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline two weeks ago, the media’s main takeaway was that State had found the project would not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions.

The top 3 flaws with the State Dept.’s Keystone study

But as environmental advocates have dug deeper into the report in the days since, they have concluded that State made several flawed assumptions and decisions. Moreover, even its own findings show potential contributions to global warming if the pipeline moves forward. Keystone XL: le pipeline géant qui fâche l'Amérique (1) Paula Antoine. 5 questions sur Keystone XL, l'oléoduc qui embarrasse Obama. Low impact: State Department says Keystone won’t hurt much at all. It’s Friday, and nothing says Friday like the words “The Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Project is out.”

Low impact: State Department says Keystone won’t hurt much at all

Am I right? Let’s just pretend I’m right. It’s out, everyone! Some people might get into conspiracy theories about governmental agencies that release highly controversial documents late on a Friday right before the Super Bowl, but surely those are just theories. Bummer for anti-Keystoners: Report finds no conflict of interest, despite obvious conflicts of interest. Environmental Resources Management, the consulting firm hired by the State Department to review the potential environmental effects of the Keystone XL pipeline, did all sorts of dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking — at least according to the State Department’s inspector general.

The Office of Inspector General today published a report that found ERM did not violate the State Department’s conflict-of-interest rules as it bid for the Keystone contract and wrote its study. Climate activists and environmentalists had requested the investigation by the inspector general, and now they’re none too pleased with the results. Earth's Future in the Friday News Dump. White House march revives Keystone XL protest movement.

State Department to Delay Keystone XL Pipeline Decision Until After November. By Ryan Koronowski via ThinkProgress. Obama delays Keystone decision — again. Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before: The Obama administration is delaying a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. But this is different from all those past delays. This is a brand new delay — and it might push the final determination past the midterm elections. As Politico notes, “A delay past November would spare Obama a politically difficult choice on whether to approve the pipeline, angering his green base and environmentally minded campaign donors — or reject it, endangering pro-pipeline Democrats such as [Sen. Mary] Landrieu, who represents oil-rich Louisiana.”

Le projet d'oléoduc Keystone XL jugé suffisamment peu polluant. Keystone pipeline review looming, likely to show little climate risk. Crude awakening: As Keystone opens in Texas, neighbors fight to protect their water. Wednesday at 10:45 a.m., Keystone XL South was supposed to begin piping tar sands crude from Cushing, Okla. to refineries in Texas. That’s what the pipeline’s builder, Transcanada, had announced. The pumps that keep crude moving through the pipeline were running last Thursday, as TransCanada performed last-minute tests of the system. But on Friday they went silent, according to observers in the area, and so far it looks like they haven’t started up since.

“Last week we heard info from two different sources that they had a major leak,” says Kathy DaSilva, of Nacogdoches, Texas, who has been involved in the fight around KXL South for the last three years. “But we have not been able to verify or find where the leak was.” Fixing old water and gas pipelines would create far more jobs than building Keystone XL. Why exploding trains are the new Keystone XL. John Kerry Throws Cold Water on Keystone XL Pipeline. Oil refiners don’t care about Keystone XL anymore. The southern half of Keystone XL is now filling up with oil.

Breaking: TransCanada Shuts Down Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline, Raising “Suspicions” Koch brothers could make $100 billion on Keystone XL pipeline deal. Layout - Embargo_Report.pdf. Keystone XL could crush endangered fox cubs in their own dens. Train or Pipeline, the Answer is the Same. 7 adorable animals imperiled by the Keystone XL pipeline. In its deliberations over the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department is taking flak not just from picket-sign-wielding environmentalists, but also from within the ranks of the Obama administration.

This spring the EPA slammed an environmental review as “insufficient” and called for major revisions. And Monday, ThinkProgress uncovered a letter [PDF] from the Interior Department, dated from April, that outlines the many and varied ways in which the pipeline could wreak havoc on plants and animals (not to mention dinosaurs) along its proposed route. The letter calls particular attention to a line in the State Department’s most recent environmental impact assessment [PDF] that claims “the majority of the potential effects to wildlife resources are indirect, short term or negligible, limited in geographic extent, and associated with the construction phase of the proposed Project only.” Which wildlife? This story was produced as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Obama points out economic downsides of Keystone XL.

Obama OKs pipeline that will help Canada’s tar-sands industry. Keystone XL May Actually Raise American Gas Prices. Keystone XL could hike gas prices as much as 40 cents a gallon. Government doesn’t know exact route of Keystone XL. Secrets, Lies, and Missing Data: New Twists in the Keystone XL Pipeline. Study says tar-sands oil not more likely to leak; activists fault study.

Terrifying/hilarious TransCanada docs call Keystone XL protesters terrorists. Hundreds arrested at anti-Keystone protest in front of White House. Eviter à tout prix Keystone XL, « une bombe à retardement climatique » Cyberaction STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE. Barack Obama rejette le projet d’oléoduc géant Keystone XL. Le sénat américain bloque la construction d'un oléoduc géant. House votes to take Keystone decision out of Obama’s hands. Obama may delay Keystone decision until 2014. GOP to Obama on Keystone: Don’t think about climate. Obama: I will only OK Keystone if it won’t significantly increase CO2 emissions. The significance of Obama’s cryptic Keystone comments. Canada’s government is spending millions to get you to like the Keystone pipeline.

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Canadian tar-sands exec: ‘We do need Keystone’ Three (More) Reasons to Oppose the XL Pipeline. Could the Keystone pipeline give you cancer? Désamorçons Keystone, la méga-bombe au carbone. Study Finds Keystone XL Would Have Much Larger Impact Than State Department Suggests. Oil Pipeline Will Not Create Many Jobs. TransCanada Admits It Lied About Keystone XL Jobs. Keystone XL isn’t even built yet and already it’s faulty.

Résistance au Keystone. Tell Obama to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline! Urgent: Reject Keystone XL 2.0 Before July 30. SF Protesters Tell Obama No Go on Keystone XL. Take the Pledge to Stop Keystone. Take Action for the Center for Biological Diversity. The Dirty Truth About Tar Sands Oil Extraction.