Trump clears way for controversial oil pipelines

President Trump has signed executive orders to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, another step in his effort to dismantle former president Barack ObamaÕs environmental legacy

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C A N A D A

Hudson Bay

PACIFIC OCEAN

Alberta oil sands

Hardisty

Stanley
North Dakota

Standing Rock Indian Reservation

Ottawa

UNITED STATES

Ogallala aquifer
Environmentalists fear Keystone XL could pollute key source of freshwater

Steele City
Nebraska

Cushing

Patoka
Illinois

Washington D.C.

MEXICO

Port Arthur

Houston

Gulf of Mexico

ATLANTIC OCEAN

500km 300 miles


Keystone pipeline

Proposed Keystone XL

Proposed Dakota Access

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Keystone XL

$8 billion, 1,897km pipeline planned to carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska

Obama halted project in 2015 on grounds it would contribute to climate change because thick crude tar sands oil is especially greenhouse gas intensive to extract

Dakota Access

$3.7bn, 1,900km pipeline planned to carry 470,000 bpd of oil from North Dakota to refineries and pipeline networks in Illinois

Army engineers halted project in Dec 2016 to explore alternative routes following huge protests by Native Americans, who say pipeline would imperil water supplies and disturb sacred burial sites

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Sources: TransCanada, Energy Transfer Partners 

Picture: Associated Press

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