{"id":3847,"date":"2021-06-12T01:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","slug":"the-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-dead-next-target-line-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/the-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-dead-next-target-line-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead. Next Target: Line 3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill McKibben, June 11, 2021, New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The announcement this week from the Canadian company TC Energy that it was <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/09\/business\/keystone-xl-pipeline-canceled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulling the plug<\/a> on the Keystone XL pipeline project was greeted with jubilation by Indigenous groups, farmers and ranchers, climate scientists and other activists who have spent the last decade fighting its construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The question now is whether it will be a one-off victory or a template for action going forward \u2014 as it must, if we\u2019re serious about either climate change or human rights. The <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/07\/climate\/line-3-pipeline-protest-native-americans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">next big challenge<\/a> looms in northern Minnesota, where the Biden administration must soon decide about the Line 3 pipeline being built by the Canadian energy company Enbridge Inc. to replace and expand an aging pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/11\/opinion\/keystone-pipeline-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we\u2019ll find out next is whether Keystone lives up to its name \u2014 whether, with its demise, much of the rest of the elaborate architecture of fossil fuel expansion begins to topple. If so, then it will have been a victory not just for a decade but also for the ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}