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Keystone XL pipeline

July 2026

  • aerial view of an oil spill in a creek

    Keystone pipeline operator agrees to pay $26.9m penalty over Kansas oil spill

    Proposed legal settlement over 2022 oil spill would resolve allegations that South Bow violated clean water laws

January 2025

  • row of people hold up cameras against giant blimp of orange cartoon man with yellow hair

    Democracy, climate and justice
    As Trump is inaugurated, activists ask: is there any point in mass protest?

    Some say Trump part two needs a new strategy as ‘the novelty of mass mobilization has kind of worn off’

June 2024

  • A TransCanada Keystone pipeline facility

    Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis

    Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money

December 2022

  • Emergency crews work to clean up the largest US crude oil spill in nearly a decade, following a leak at the Keystone pipeline operated by TC Energy in rural Washington county, Kansas.

    America's dirty divide
    Keystone pipeline raises concerns after third major spill in five years

    An investigation into the pipeline’s largest spill is under way in Kansas as a recent report points to a deteriorating safety record

June 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: Indigenous leaders participate in protest march and rally outside White House in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Indigenous leaders participate in a protest march and rally in opposition to the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines in front of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

    Owner cancels Keystone XL pipeline months after Biden revoked permit

    TC Energy halts project that faced longstanding opposition from climate campaigners

February 2021

  • Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau shake hands in 2016, when Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama.

    Joe Biden to meet Justin Trudeau of Canada after Keystone pipeline order

    Allies seek to turn page on strains of Donald Trump era but oil permit revocation and US goods order complicate picture

January 2021

  • Indigenous activists protest a Keystone construction site near the US-Canadian border in Montana, May, 2020.

    double quotation markBiden killed the Keystone Pipeline. Good, but he doesn't get a climate pass just yet

    Nick Estes
    Democrats’ climate record is mixed – and it’s largely pressure from Indigenous and environmental groups that’s pushed them to act
  • FILE PHOTO: TC Energy CEO and Alberta premier discuss construction Keystone XL pipeline in Calgary<br>FILE PHOTO: Alberta Premier Jason Kenney delivers a statement on the construction of the long-delayed 8 billion dollar Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo

    This land is your land
    Alberta leader says Biden's move to cancel Keystone pipeline a 'gut punch’

    Environmental groups in Canada applaud decision, but country’s western provinces left in disbelief

    • 'No more broken treaties': indigenous leaders urge Biden to shut down Dakota Access pipeline

    • Biden to 'hit ground running' as he rejoins Paris climate accords

    • Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source

December 2020

  • Members of the Cowboy-Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and Indigenous leaders, protests against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington, April 22, 2014.

    double quotation markBiden must be our 'climate president'. He can start by ending pipeline projects

    Faith Spotted Eagle and Kendall Mackey
    There is no way to mine fossil fuels without driving the planet past 1.5C of warming and putting Indigenous communities at risk

April 2020

  • A judge has revoked a key permit for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, in a victory to tribes and environmentalists.

    Our unequal earth
    Major blow to Keystone XL pipeline as judge revokes key permit

  • Bill McKibben

    double quotation markBig Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline

    Bill McKibben

January 2020

  • FILE PHOTO -- A depot used to store pipes for Transcanada Corp’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne, North Dakota November 14, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File Photo

    White House unveils plan for major projects to bypass environmental review

    Plan would help Trump administration advance projects held up over global heating concerns such as the Keystone XL oil pipeline

November 2019

  • FILE - This June 12, 2019 file photo shows demonstrators against the Keystone XL pipeline walking to to Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse in in Rapid City, S.D. South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux tribe and two tribes in Montana have sued the Trump administration in a bid to block the controversial oil pipeline. (Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal via AP, File)

    Keystone XL: police discussed stopping anti-pipeline activists 'by any means'

    Records seen by the Guardian show law enforcement has called demonstrators possible ‘domestic terrorism’ threats

September 2019

  • A protestor participates in a demonstration in Washington against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.

    Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations

    Protesters were characterized as a threat to national security in what one calls an attempt to criminalize their actions

August 2019

  • FILE PHOTO -- A TransCanada Keystone Pipeline pump station operates outside Steele City, Nebraska March 10, 2014. REUTERS/Lane Hickenbottom/File Photo

    Keystone XL pipeline set to go ahead as court lifts last major hurdle

    State’s highest court rejects attempt to derail project by opponents who want to force developer to reapply for state approval

November 2018

  • Protestors from the L'eau Est La Vie protest camp worked to halt construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, an extension of the Dakota Access Pipeline, in the Atchafalaya Basin in south Louisiana.

    Louisiana landowners sue Bayou Bridge pipeline for trespassing and damage

  • The judge ordered TransCanada, the company behind the project, to halt work on Keystone while the US government conducts a more thorough review of its impact.

    Keystone XL pipeline: judge rules government 'jumped the gun' and orders halt

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