Joe Biden’s position as President of the United States has been to normalize bilateral relations with Canada. The sensation in the country is that we want to be more predictable and cordial with the Democrat, even if not perfect. The differences between states and Canadians in different themes form part of their history. Pocas hours after haber assumido the cargo, Biden firm 17 decrees to unload with speed of various dispositions of Donald Trump. One of them directly affects the vecino of the north: the recession of permits for the construction and explosion of the Keystone XL oleoducto, a planned artery to send Canadian crude and refined stadiums.
The project has been accompanied by its initiatives – more than 12 years ago – by a chorus of opposition voices and judicial appeals, both for ambientists and indigenous groups. Keystone XL will connect Hardisty (Alberta) with Steele City (Nebraska) to transport 830,000 oil and 8,930 kilometers of oil. Other lines will be available to send to Texas hydrocarbons and refineries in Texas. The total cost of the project is around 8,000 million dollars. Barack Obama took the initiative in 2015, but Trump volunteered to authorize it in 2017.
Joe Biden’s executive order on Keystone XL did not come as a surprise, it was one of his campaign promises. One of its sources states that this oleoducto has to serve to transport petroleum from “bitumen arenas that we do not need”. “De hecho, son altamee contaminantes”, aggregated. The suspension of this project and the implementation of the Paris Agreement form part of Biden’s medium-term agenda. Without embargo, Canadian economists have endorsed an additional motive: The United States has significantly increased petrol production within its frontiers (in 2019, internal petroleum consumption requires only 3% of total imports).
Trudeau’s Liberal Gobierno, who enthusiastically received Trump’s authorization for the 2017 project, expressed in various moments at Biden – and in his election of president – that Keystone XL is an important element and North American energy security matter and that petroleum extraction starch attached to rigid medium-sized rules. For his part, Jason Kenney, Prime Minister of Alberta (the Mayor of the Petroleum Province), asked Biden to carry out a series of consultations before taking a “precipitated” decision, and that the cancellation of the project would mean the loss of jobs and debilitating bilateral veins. The Government of Alberta has invested $ 1,000 million in this cargo of TC Energy, in addition to offering $ 4,600 million in performance guarantees. Sondeverbod, Biden no cambió de parecer.
Through the decree company, Trudeau issued a statement. “We welcome the President Biden’s compromise in order to counteract the climatic changes, but we are deceived by its decision related to the Keystone XL project. However, we will review the president’s decision to comply with the promise made in the election campaign, ”the document said. Moreover, Trudeau manifests that the workers, as well as the petroleum provinces of the west as the rest of the country, tend to always support him. Jason Kenney said he was “deeply upset” by the media, calling it “a blow to the economies of Alberta and Canada.” Assimismo, I would like to thank Trudeau for restoring the dialogue on the subject with the new state administration, including the imposition of commercial sanctions. También dijo que el Gobierno de Alberta contemplla llegar a los tribunales.
In the federal sphere, the blocs of the Bloque Quebeques, the Green Party and the New Democratic Party manifest themselves in response to Biden’s decision, considering that it is necessary to invest more than just in energy. Various civil organizations – such as Greenpeace – will be appointed to the same board. Cabe recorded the critical oil of Trudeau in June 2019 by nationalizing the TransMountain oleoduct and confirming its expansion one day after declaring climatic emergence.
Various analysts say that Trudeau will hardly want to start a battle with the Governor of Keystone XL. Trudeau aún lidia con los señalamientos relacionados con TransMountain, debe cenirse a las medioambientales y sabe que los altos precios del barril son cosa pasado. Moreover, the political bill will continue to rise as the wall project, leading to the miraculous futures of elections. John Ibbitson commented on The Globe and Mail: “The first priority of any Federal, Liberal or Conservative, is to preserve jobs in the center of Canada [con bajas actividades petroleras], donde vive la mayoría de la gente. Asia is simply how the world turns ”.
But another factor also invites us to think that Trudeau will opt to enter the hacha: the new cycle of relations with the United States. Alec Castonguay written in LNews: “Canada is in the process of reconstructing this essential corner with its historical ally. Now that the Casa Blanca is being led by a dialogue and understanding body, we will be debating the situation in order to solve some of the persistent problems: the conflict over the building wall, the reunification of the United States in the air with the climate change climate. -19, that the stadiums help to free the two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, from the China garrison. Put all the horses in the Keystone XL canvas no more series to reconstruct the relationship ”. In view of this scenario, it is likely that Trudeau will support the Alberta Premier in its plans to revamp the oleoducto.