President Donald Trump on Thursday approved a major oil pipeline project from Canada into the United States, reviving an initiative from his first term that the Biden administration canceled.
The project, informally dubbed “Keystone Light,” is seen as a scaled-down successor to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which President Joe Biden terminated in 2021.
Trump granted a presidential permit allowing the pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canada border, clearing a major hurdle for the proposal led by Bridger Pipeline and its Canadian partners.
The new pipeline would stretch roughly 650 miles from Canada through Montana and Wyoming, carrying up to 550,000 barrels of crude oil per day, about two-thirds the capacity of the original Keystone XL project.
Speaking after signing the approval, Trump contrasted his decision with Biden’s cancellation of the initial project, which had been halted on environmental grounds shortly after Biden took office.
“Slightly different from the last administration. They wouldn’t sign
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