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From advancing controversial pipeline projects to abandoning the Paris climate agreement, here is a list of Trump's biggest power plays — and where they stand now.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a controversial pipeline project in Rensselaer County, two separate lawsuits in Schenectady that resulted in payouts, and police requesting travelers on Thanksgiving to be aware.

The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a measure to move forward with the controversial pipeline project.

An analysis using industry data found that building the ACP and a second controversial pipeline project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, would more than double the carbon footprint of Virginia's power sector.

Not exact matches

The Keystone XL pipeline faces a new, formidable and deep - pocketed foe: Tom Steyer, a California billionaire, has targeted the controversial Canadian project to funnel Alberta's landlocked heavy crude to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford have had an uneasy relationship since Clark outlined five conditions to win her support for the controversial pipeline, including a «fair share» of the project's economic benefits.

On April 8, Kinder Morgan Canada held an unusual Sunday conference call to announce an immediate halt to all non-essential spending on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, threatening to pull the plug on the project completely unless the escalating political conflicts over the pipeline could be resolved by May 31.

Interprovincial pipeline construction projects are proving to be hugely controversial, whether those projects are greenfield projects (such as Northern Gateway), expansion projects (such as the TM project), line reversal projects (such as Enbridge's Line 9) or re-purposing projects (such as TransCanada's Energy East).

TransCanada, the company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S Gulf Coast, has asked the U.S. State Department to pause its review of the project.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, prompting a tsunami of outrage and vows of bold resistance from the Indigenous activists, climate campaigners, and countless others who have fought against these projects.

Less than a week after construction began on the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, a coalition of crawfishers and environmental groups took legal steps to immediately shut down the project.

New York state lost a jurisdiction dispute with the FERC, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to review whether the federal energy regulator had big - footed the state when it gave the green light to a controversial natural gas pipeline project in Orange County.

The controversial Chad - Cameroon Petroleum Pipeline began producing oil in 2003, led by an oil consortium of ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas, the World Bank (which withdrew from the project in 2008 after it became clear money from the pipeline was being spent on arms acquisitions in Chad) and the governments of Chad and Cameroon.

The final version of the report also excised a reference to risks associated with gas pipelines and underground storage — a reference which could have complicated the Cuomo administration's potential support for a number of other controversial energy projects, including a proposed gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes region that local winemakers say could destroy their burgeoning industry.

A New York State Assemblyman says he arranged for bus transportation for those who want to join in opposing a controversial water pipeline construction project in Orange County.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. State Department announced on Friday it is extending the government comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline, a move that likely postpones a final decision on the controversial project until after the November 4 mid-term elections.

There's also likely to be discussion about a controversial local pipeline project and climate change.

This past month was anything but short on developments of interest to environmentalists, with a deal being inked to build the Nabucco natural - gas pipeline, European funders pulling out of the controversial IlÄ ± su Dam project, and the final stage of Turkey's ban on indoor smoking going into effect.

Activists were protesting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in an effort to pressure US President Barack Obama to turn down the project.

Climate activists have rallied in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial project to carry oil from tar sands in western Canada south to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

The editorial boards of two newspapers owned by oil tycoon Philip Anschutz re-endorsed the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline project days after Nebraska's Governor approved a new route for the pipeline, but neither paper acknowledged the continued environmental danger of the project and both exaggerated the project's potential for job creation and consumer benefits.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A major rival to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project is vastly boosting its U.S. pipeline system, but it's avoiding the same scrutiny that federal regulators, environmentalists and landowners are giving Keystone owner TransCanada Corp..

Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

The proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline project would connect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline to refineries and export terminals in St. James, Louisiana, and traverse 11 parishes and more than 700 bodies of water.

This revealed approval of the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline would only have a marginal positive impact of the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could trigger a rush of investment into additional risky high - cost, high - carbon projects, dependent on rising oil prices.

Thousands of barrels of oil from Alberta's tar sands region — similar to the diluted bitumen that would flow through the controversial Keystone XL project — spilled into a residential neighborhood from a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes.

As to the controversial Keystone Pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, Obama said that the pipeline would not be approved if it worsens climate change: «our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

MONTREAL and TORONTO — Conservationists celebrated news that Enbridge will shelve its controversial «Trailbreaker» project to reverse the flow of oil in the Montreal - Sarnia pipeline in order to bring tar sands oil to and through Montreal for export.

It is these projects that are in McKibben's sights, and the controversial Keystone pipeline in the US and the vast coal projects in the Galilee basin in Queensland top the agenda.

While the climate speech isn't likely to touch on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the controversial project that has spawned a massive opposition campaign among the president's liberal base, it is expected to involve these measures:

It carries material very similar to the Canadian tar sands crude projected to be delivered by the proposed and hotly controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the Great Plains.

The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change.

In fact, if all of the oil - by - rail projects were built, they would be capable of moving 720,000 barrels per day — that's more oil capacity than either of the controversial pipelines planned in British Columbia.

As Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and Albertan Premier, Rachel Notley, prepare to invest in Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline, they are trying to spin the benefits of the highly controversial project.

25 November — Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

EA processes and decisions have been increasingly subject to lawsuits, criticism and protests, with the target of dissent being either the project (say, Kinder Morgan's controversial proposed oil sands pipeline) or the reviewing body (e.g., the National Energy Board).

OTTAWA — Facing a political test that could mark his government as dithering or decisive, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is vowing that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built, as Ottawa considers a «broad range» of unspecified «options» to make the controversial project a reality.

The B.C. Liberals are under scrutiny for accepting significant donations from lobbyists, including those connected to the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project, sparking an RCMP investigation.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

A range of looming legal, political and economic risks threaten to delay and possibly derail Kinder Morgan Canada's increasingly controversial interprovincial pipeline expansion project.