{"id":4498,"date":"2021-01-28T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:16:23","slug":"bidens-plan-to-cancel-keystone-signals-a-rocky-start-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/01\/28\/bidens-plan-to-cancel-keystone-signals-a-rocky-start-with-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s plan to cancel Keystone signals a rocky start with Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/canada-keystone-pipeline-biden-us-relations\/2021\/01\/19\/ce09ea54-5a60-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/canada-keystone-pipeline-biden-us-relations\/2021\/01\/19\/ce09ea54-5a60-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After four years of trade clashes, unpredictable foreign policy and insults lobbed at the prime minister by tweet, Canadian officials are optimistic that the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will mean a return to traditionally close relations between Canada and the United States. But this last week, they were dealt an uneasy reminder that Biden will also bring the return of more familiar bilateral irritants, including the difference over a project that a former U.S. ambassador to Canada once described as a \u201ctoe stubber\u201d: the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden\u2019s plans to quickly terminate the project were greeted with disappointment in Canada\u2019s prairie provinces and in Ottawa, even if they could not have been a surprise. Biden pledged to shut down the pipeline during the campaign as part of his green agenda, but Canadian officials hoped they would still have a chance to catch his ear and change his mind.Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who also supports the project, raised the controversial pipeline with Biden in a Nov.\u20099 phone call, according to a Canadian readout that said he looked forward to \u201cengaging\u201d on that issue, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found it interesting that one lady said \u201cCanadians, like people everywhere need to get used to the ideas that their behaviors and economies must change beginning yesterday.&nbsp; Hydrocarbon oxidation must cease to be a fundamental means of energy production.&nbsp; The by-products of mass hydrocarbon oxidation have changed our environment.&nbsp; People who are dependent on hydrocarbon burning must change.\u201d I completely agree with her in the idea that certain countries are being more selfish than others, just because they don\u2019t like change. Not to say that America is perfect all the time at all, but with Biden in office, he is making changes for the environment that seem necessary for the well being of the plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/canada-keystone-pipeline-biden-us-relations\/2021\/01\/19\/ce09ea54-5a60-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html After four years of trade clashes, unpredictable foreign policy and insults lobbed at the prime minister by tweet, Canadian officials are optimistic that the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will mean a return to traditionally close relations between Canada and the United States. But this last week, they were dealt an uneasy reminder that Biden will also bring the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/01\/28\/bidens-plan-to-cancel-keystone-signals-a-rocky-start-with-canada\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}