TransCanada asks U.S. to suspend Keystone XL Pipeline permit

An anti-Keystone XL Pipeline activist.
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The Alberta-based energy company TransCanada has asked the U.S. government to suspend its permit application for the Keystone XL Pipeline.

In a letter sent to the State Department, which reviews cross-border pipelines, the company asked that its application be suspended as it goes through a state review process in Nebraska, something it previously resisted, The Wall Street Journal reports. The pipeline, which faces opposition from environmentalists, would move up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil sands of Canada to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would then connect with existing pipelines to the Gulf Coast.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.