A yard in Gascoyne, ND., which has hundreds of kilometres of pipes stacked inside it that are supposed to go into the Keystone XL pipeline

By Associated Press

HEADING SOUTH

Work begins on Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.

May 22, 2020 | 8:18 AM

CALGARY- TC Energy has built the first piece of the disputed Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S. border and started work on labour camps in Montana and South Dakota.

However, the Calgary based company hasn’t resolved a recent courtroom setback that cancelled a key permit and would make it much harder to complete the $8-billion project.

The almost 2000-kilometre pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska was stalled for much of the past decade before U.S. President Donald Trump was elected and began trying to push it through to completion.

Environmentalists and Native American tribes are bitterly opposed to it because of worries over oil spills and that burning the fuel would make climate change worse.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said he will rip up President Trump’s approvals for the Keystone XL pipeline if he takes over the White House next year.

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