Keystone XL Pipeline

For the past decade imports of tar sands crude oil or bitumen have been increasing. Tar sands is stripmined and drilled in an energy‐and water‐intensive process from under the Boreal forests and wetlands of Alberta. In the process, Canada is destroying critical habitat while releasing three times the greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil production.

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, like all oil industry projects, benefits from substantial taxpayer subsidies.  Some, like reduced property taxes, are directed at the pipeline itself.  Others increase the viability of the pipeline by reducing the cost of the oil going into it, or the cost of processing it at the other end.