Alberta gears up for another fight over Keystone XL after Biden vows to pull permissions
CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he is prepared to go to court anf file a free-trade lawsuit alongside TC Energy Corp. if Joe Biden becomes president and follows through with his promise to pull permits on the Keystone XL pipeline.
A spokesman for TC Energy, the Calgary-based pipeline proponent, said in an emailed statement that no other pipeline project “in the history of the industry has been studied more than Keystone XL. “It’s become shorthand that you’re an environmentalist if you don’t like Keystone XL,” Masson said, adding that he’s not surprised the Biden campaign announced its opposition to the project, but it does raise the known risks facing the pipeline.In late March, Kenney announced a $1.5 billion investment and $6 billion in loan guarantees for the Keystone XL project to ensure TC Energy would begin building the project in April.
TC Energy’s Cunha said the company wouldn’t forecast exactly how many workers would be in the field building Keystone XL during the November 2020 election but said, “during peak levels, we would employ close to 13,000 individuals,” including 10,400 in the U.S. and 2,800 in Canada. Biden is unlikely to change his position on Keystone XL between now and, if elected, taking office in February 2021 because he had also proposed some of the toughest measures targeting American oil and gas companies among the field of Democratic nominees, said James Coleman, an energy law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
James Coleman, energy law professor, Southern Methodist University “There’s not really any legal limit on a president’s ability to get rid of a pipeline, even if it’s been built,” Coleman said, adding that Biden could even force TC Energy to dig up and remove the already-constructed sections of Keystone XL, including the border crossing.
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