Biden 'to cancel Keystone pipeline on day one in office'

Washington, Jan. 19 -- Adding one more item to his to-do list on day one US President-elect Joe Biden said that he would be cancelling the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office. The pipeline which is projected to carry oil for 1,200 miles (1,900km) from the Canadian province of Alberta down to Nebraska, to join an existing pipeline, has been vehemently by environmentalists and Native American groups who have fought against the project for more than a decade.

Mr Biden will sign an executive order revoking the permit for Keystone XL on Inauguration Day - 20 January, a BBC report said.

Work on the project had been halted but President Donald Trump ordered the restarting of the work in 2019, when he overturned a decisi...