Is Trump really planning to revive Keystone XL? And is there even life left in that pipeline plan? [Video]

There’s lately been a lot of talk in Washington about resurrecting the Keystone XL pipeline, the 1,897-kilometre pipeline that was designed to take oil from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest.

The project was first proposed by Calgary-based TC Energy in 2008. It was scrapped under the Obama administration, then revived by Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office. Then it was killed again by President Joe Biden on his first day in office in January 2021 — after Alberta had already invested more than a billion dollars in the project. 

Now, Trump is headed back to the White House and reportedly plans to restart the project, generating plenty of excitement on both sides of the border. After the U.S. election, Alberta’s premier reportedly reached outto TC Energy to see if Keystone XL could be revived or if there were other ways to increase the province’s oil and gas pipeline export volumes …