Fight over Canadian oil rages on after Keystone XL’s demise

ASSOCIATED PRESS / JUNE 1

President Joe Biden speaks at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla. The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to complete the partially built oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure Biden to intervene — all while oil imports from the north keep rising.

KRISTOPHER RADDER/THE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER VIA AP / JAN. 15

Bill McKibben, a climate activist, speaks to a group of students at the Hilltop Montessori School, in Brattleboro, Vt. The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to complete the partially built oil pipeline. But the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene. McKibben, an author who was arrested outside the White House while protesting the Keystone XL in 2011, said its defeat provides a template to kill other pipelines, including Line 3 and the Dakota Access Pipeline from North Dakota's Bakken oil field.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2014

A member of the Center for Biological Diversity in polar bear costume protests the Keystone XL pipeline during a visit by then President Barack Obama for a two-day visit to Los Angeles. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2014

Some of more than 350 miles of pipe awaiting shipment for the Keystone XL oil pipeline project is stored at Welspun Tubular, in Little Rock, Ark. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2014

Several hundred students and youth who marched from Georgetown University to the White House to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline wait to be arrested outside the White House in Washington. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.

ADAM FONDREN/RAPID CITY JOURNAL VIA AP / 2019

Walking up Main Street the procession protesting against the Keystone XL pipeline makes its way to Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse in Rapid City, S.D. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.

RICHARD TSONG-TAATARII/STAR-TRIBUNE VIA AP / 2017

Workers make sure that each section of the Enbridge replacement Line 3 that is joined passes muster in Superior, Wisc. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018

Pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit.