This action is a huge blow to the tar sands overall, and if the other pipeline gets too many set backs the tar sands might actually fold from lack of investment.

I had literally zero hopes for Biden, and this is already a net good. Consider me surprised.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    4 years ago

    Biden has already done more to mitigate climate change than any other American or Canadian head of state.

    It's a single pipeline that had already failed, Nixon created the EPA, you really want to play around with this logic?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      It’s a single pipeline that had already failed

      It's been profitable for developers to date. And the Alberta line would connect the west coast of Canada to the lucrative Gulf Coast refinery/shipping network.

      Cancellation is pissing a lot of O&G guys in the Mid/Southwest off.