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Migratory birds like the Sandhill Crane depend on habitat that would have been threatened by the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Michael Forsberg
The Obama administration announced it would reject the permit on Keystone XL, the controversial 1,700-mile oil sands pipeline.
The proposed pipeline was to carry exceptionally dirty, highly polluting, bitumen oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
The route cut across the Ogallala Aquifer, a critical source of fresh water for more than two million Americans and for agriculture in the High Plains – part of our nation’s "breadbasket."
Keystone XL would also have bisected the Nebraska Sandhills' 1.3 million acres of wetlands and home to more than 1,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, and plants.
EDF, along with many other environmental organizations, worked to stop this destructive project. Nearly 40,000 EDF members took action to oppose it.
The U.S. State Department said that TransCanada, the pipeline company, would be allowed to submit a new proposal for an oil pipeline along a different route. But the department’s action has effectively put Keystone XL on hold.
Proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline project would have cut through America's heartland.
Show your support for strong environmental leadership. Thank President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for rejecting the Keystone permit.
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