What Is Keystone XL?
The Keystone XL pipe expansion, recommended by TC Power (after that TransCanada) in 2008, was initially created to transfer the earth’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market– and also quickly.
As an expansion of the firm’s existing Keystone Pipeline System, which has been operating since 2010 (as well as remains to send Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to numerous handling centers in the middle of the United States), the pipe promised to drastically boost capacity to process the 168 billion barrels of crude oil secured under Canada’s boreal forest.
It was anticipated to move 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Shore of Texas. From the refineries, the oil would be sent primarily overseas– not to gas pumps in the United States.
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