Environmental advocates say the project as proposed makes little sense and the more likely plan is to connect with other pipelines linking to the Midwest or Gulf Coast, the destination of the original Keystone XL pipeline. That route would allow oil companies to reach major Gulf Coast refineries and export Canadian oil beyond the United States.<\/p>\n
Multiple news<\/a> organizations<\/a> reported that Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney discussed reviving the Keystone XL pipeline at a meeting last year.<\/p>\n South Bow, a Canadian company that was spun off from the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline and owns sections of that project that were built in Canada, announced an \u201copen season\u201d in March<\/a> to seek commitments from buyers to send oil from Alberta to multiple sites in the United States, including the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n How to Comment on the Pipeline Proposal<\/p>\n The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments by May 1 on a proposed pipeline from the Canadian border through Montana and Wyoming. It will also hold two meetings in Montana, one in Wyoming and one virtually in mid-April. Instructions for how to submit comments and where to attend are available at this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bridger Pipeline also held an open season<\/a> with another pipeline company that has a link between Guernsey and Cushing, Oklahoma, a major oil hub along the former route of the Keystone XL line.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a kind of bait and switch,\u201d said Jane Kleeb, founder and executive director of Bold Alliance, an advocacy group founded in 2010 to fight Keystone XL.<\/p>\n Kleeb helped organize a broad coalition of farmers and ranchers, Indigenous leaders, environmentalists and others across the Plains and Gulf Coast who pushed Obama to reject that pipeline. Since then, she said, companies have begun to break up their projects to try to avoid facing as much opposition.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen pipeline companies do this, when they basically don\u2019t put all their cards on the table, they\u2019re not flaring up lots of communities,\u201d Kleeb said.<\/p>\n Bill Salvin, a spokesperson for Bridger Pipelines, said he could not comment on what the pipeline might connect to in Canada or beyond Wyoming, but he said the open season connecting to Oklahoma was not related to the new proposal, called the Bridger Pipeline Expansion. He added that his company expects pipelines between Canada and the United States to reach capacity within a few years.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that there is a market for Canadian oil to be brought down into the United States,\u201d Salvin said, and that is what the proposal is designed to do.<\/p>\n Solomiya Lyaskovska, a South Bow spokesperson, said in an email that the company \u201cis evaluating an expansion that would leverage existing infrastructure and permitted corridors in Canada and could connect to downstream pipelines in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bridger expansion would require permits from multiple state and federal agencies, including a \u201cpresidential permit<\/a>\u201d for crossing the border with Canada.<\/p>\n While the company\u2019s application to Montana does not specify what type of oil the pipeline would carry, most Canadian oil comes from its tar sands, also called oil sands, huge deposits of a heavy hydrocarbon called bitumen that can be diluted or refined into a synthetic crude oil. The process is expensive and energy intensive, releasing more climate pollution than conventional oil production. It is also environmentally damaging<\/a>, with much of the extraction coming from vast open-pit mines accumulating toxic waste that sometimes leaches into waterways.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a tar sands pipeline even though the company is doing everything it can to not utter those words,\u201d said Derf Johnson, deputy director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, an advocacy group.<\/p>\n Johnson said his group is concerned about environmental impacts from all stages of the oil\u2019s production, transportation and refining. Spills of bitumen can be harder to clean than conventional crude.<\/p>\n The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is the lead agency handling the pipeline review and is accepting written comments<\/a> by May 1 before it prepares an environmental impact statement. The agency is holding a series of public meetings next week in Montana, Wyoming and virtually.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tAbout This Story<\/p>\n Perhaps you noticed: This story, like all the news we publish, is free to read. That\u2019s because Inside Climate News is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. We do not charge a subscription fee, lock our news behind a paywall, or clutter our website with ads. We make our news on climate and the environment freely available to you and anyone who wants it.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not all. We also share our news for free with scores of other media organizations around the country. Many of them can\u2019t afford to do environmental journalism of their own. We\u2019ve built bureaus from coast to coast to report local stories, collaborate with local newsrooms and co-publish articles so that this vital work is shared as widely as possible.<\/p>\n Two of us launched ICN in 2007. Six years later we earned a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and now we run the oldest and largest dedicated climate newsroom in the nation. We tell the story in all its complexity. We hold polluters accountable. We expose environmental injustice. We debunk misinformation. We scrutinize solutions and inspire action.<\/p>\n Donations from readers like you fund every aspect of what we do. If you don\u2019t already, will you support our ongoing work, our reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet, and help us reach even more readers in more places? <\/p>\n Please take a moment to make a tax-deductible donation. Every one of them makes a difference.<\/p>\n Thank you,<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tReporter, New York<\/p>\n Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for Inside Climate News. Before joining ICN, he worked at the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica. His work has won numerous awards and citations, including from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Overseas Press Club, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and others. His articles have appeared in more than a dozen publications including Wired, The Washington Post, Businessweek, The Nation and The New York Times. 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