The Financial Post reports in its Saturday, May 2, edition that President Donald Trump signed a permit allowing Bridger Pipeline LLC to develop a cross-border project using existing infrastructure from the abandoned Keystone XL pipeline.
The Post's Meghan Potkins writes that after signing on Thursday Mr. Trump said, "Slightly different from the last administration -- they wouldn't sign a pipeline deal." His predecessor, Joe Biden, in 2021 revoked a cross-border presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
The permit will allow Bridger to construct and operate the cross-border segment of a line that is expected to connect to infrastructure originally built by TC Energy for the now defunct Keystone XL project.
The current owner of the Keystone XL assets, TC-spinoff South Bow, has been developing a new export pipeline project using the existing corridor that it has dubbed "Prairie Connector." South Bow said Thursday that the line would move oil from Hardisty, Alta., to the Canada-United States border where there is "potential" for it to connect to Bridger's project.
Bridger's proposal would follow a different route than the cancelled TC project which would have transited through South Dakota and Nebraska.
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