Inside Trade

March 28, 2025

Alberta: Biden’s revocation of Keystone permit was political, not environmental

By Brett Fortnam  / February 14, 2022 at 4:28 PM
The Albertan government is claiming President Biden’s revocation of a permit allowing for the construction of the KeystoneXL pipeline between the U.S. and Canada was not based on environmental concerns, but rather a show of political theater that cost the Canadian province $1.3 billion. The province, via the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, is suing the U.S. under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement for that lost investment, which it claimed the U.S. unjustly expropriated when it revoked the KeystoneXL pipeline permit the day...

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