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   CBC News · Jan 17, 2021   
      
   Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on 1st day in   
   office, sources confirm   
      
   U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL   
   pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources   
   confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.   
      
   A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan   
   was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming   
   president's team with U.S. stakeholders.   
      
   The transition document suggests that Canada has not been able to persuade the   
   incoming Biden administration of the benefits of the pipeline expansion   
   project.   
      
   The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive   
   actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency.   
      
   The list shown to stakeholders is a lengthier version of a list already   
   reported in the media based on a memo released publicly over the weekend by   
   Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain. That publicly reported memo from Klain   
   did not mention Keystone XL,    
   but cautioned that the memo was not a complete list of planned actions.   
      
   The Biden team has announced plans to sign dozens of executive orders in the   
   incoming president's first few days in office.   
   Climate actions planned for first day   
      
   They include a raft of environmental policies to be enacted on the first day   
   of his presidency, including re-joining the Paris climate accord. The note   
   shown to stakeholders has led some to expect that the first-day climate   
   actions will include the move    
   to cancel the project to carry Canadian bitumen.   
      
   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his first conversation with Biden as   
   president-elect in November, indicated that he wanted to speak further about   
   some potential irritants — including Keystone XL and Biden's proposed Buy   
   American policies.   
      
   Biden foreshadowed such a cancellation months ago, announcing in a U.S. TV   
   interview and through statements from his campaign team that he intended to   
   cancel the $8-billion, cross-border pipeline.   
      
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   Biden to use executive actions to roll back Trump policies on 1st day in office   
      
   Biden's pick for energy secretary could mean trouble for Alberta's oilpatch,   
   experts say   
      
   However, proponents of the project have been hoping that he might reconsider   
   once in office.   
      
   Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole called on Trudeau to reach out to the   
   incoming U.S. administration to ensure Keystone moves forward. "Keystone XL is   
   a project of national significance that supports countless workers on both   
   sides of the border,"    
   he said in an emailed statement.   
      
   However, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul welcomed the news, calling Biden's   
   potential actions a "contrast in leadership" to new offshore drilling projects   
   greenlit by Canada's environment minister earlier this week.   
      
   Former TC Energy executive Dennis McConaghy is not surprised the project is   
   among the first decisions by the new administration.   
      
   "I have consistently said Biden would indulge in this rescinding of the permit   
   immediately because it's something he has to do largely to follow through for   
   expectations of his political base and many of his donors," McConaghy told   
   CBC's Kyle Bakx on    
   Sunday.   
      
   The decision would likely lead to disappointment in the Canadian oilpatch,   
   even after so many other setbacks for the project over the last decade.   
      
   "Ideally the project should have been completed and put into operation during   
   the Trump administration," McConaghy said. "It's a very audacious thing that   
   is being done here by the Biden administration."   
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   Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada, suggested   
   Canada's continued support of the pipeline was akin to "beating [a] dead   
   horse."   
      
   "The Biden administration offers us a fresh start on addressing the climate   
   crisis with a willing partner, so let's not blow it by pushing pipelines,"   
   Stewart said   
      
   U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders called the pipeline expansion a disaster in a tweet.   
      
   "With all of the major crises facing America, we must never lose sight of the   
   most existential threat facing our planet: climate change," he wrote.   
      
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