‘Biden stops construction of controversial oil pipeline’ | Financial

“Keystone XL pipeline license revocation,” according to a memo from Biden’s transition team, is one of the so-called presidential orders Biden will carry out once he sits in the White House. The $ 9 billion pipeline will transport oil from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska. But the project has been delayed due to legal proceedings. The oil pipeline has met opposition from Indian tribes who own parts of the land and opposition from conservationists.

The plan was shelved under President Barack Obama, but in 2017 President Trump signed a decree reversing it and ordering the accelerated construction of the leadership.

Climate agreement

According to the broadcaster, the memo that CBC News has is a longer version of one that already appeared in the media last weekend. It contained ten decisions that Biden wants to take immediately after his swearing-in. For example, he wants his country to return to the Paris climate agreement.

Biden also wants to lift the travel ban to the US from Muslim countries, ban evictions from home during the corona pandemic, temporarily suspend student loan payments, reunite immigrant children who are now separated from their parents, and impose a mask on federal government buildings and public transportation.

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