From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   . . . . just add the legal fees to the minus side of the ledger. Don't be   
   giving Jason Kenney any ideas . . . Albertans are get a tad tired of playing   
   the wheel of fortune - and losing.   
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   CBC News · Posted: Jul 02, 2021   
      
   Calgary's TC Energy files $15B US trade complaint for cancellation of Keystone   
   XL permit   
      
   Company seeking $15B US in damages through a NAFTA dispute   
      
   Calgary-based TC Energy says it has started a formal claim for over $15   
   billion US under the North American Free Trade Agreement over the cancellation   
   of a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.   
      
   The company says it has filed a notice of intent for damages under NAFTA with   
   the U.S. State Department. The trade deal was replaced in 2020, but there is a   
   three-year window to file complaints under the old agreement.   
      
   Speaking in June when the company and the province said they were walking away   
   from the project, James Coleman, an associate professor of energy law at   
   Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said the company could complain that   
   it was "treated in a    
   discriminatory fashion."   
      
   Keystone XL is dead, and Albertans are on the hook for $1.3B   
      
   "With that said, nobody's ever won a NAFTA suit against the United States.   
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   So I think most people would say your odds of success are less than 50-50," he   
   said at the time.   
      
   If completed, the 1,897-kilometre pipeline, first announced in 2005, would   
   have carried 830,000 barrels of crude a day from Hardisty, Alta., to Nebraska.   
   It would then connect with the original Keystone that runs to U.S. refineries   
   on the Gulf Coast.   
      
   Alberta expected to lose $1.3B   
      
   The Alberta government agreed last year to invest about $1.5 billion as equity   
   in the project, plus billions more in loan guarantees, in order to get the   
   pipeline moving.   
      
   As a result, the Canadian leg of the project had been under construction for   
   several months with around 1,000 workers in southeast Alberta.   
      
   The provincial government said in June that it expected to lose $1.3 billion   
   after ending the relationship with TC Energy, but also said it was keeping its   
   legal options open.   
      
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