Over the past two years, at least four multibillion-dollar pipeline projects that drew protests have been delayed or even canceled, signaling to activists the effectiveness of their pressure campaign for a carbon-free future.
Sometimes, as in the case of the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline, whose permit was seized by President Joe Biden, political considerations force project developers to give up.
Similarly, Williams Companies last year canceled its $1 billion, 125-mile natural gas Constitution pipeline after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo used Clean Water Act power to halt construction.
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Cuomo used the same authority to deny a permit for the $1 billion Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement project to deliver natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to New York City. Williams Companies has not given up efforts to build that pipeline but is on a delayed timeline.
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Last year, utilities Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced they would abandon construction of the $8 billion Atlantic Coast pipeline, which would have carried natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia to East Coast markets.
Court challenges to that project led to yearslong construction delays and over $3 billion in cost increase, according to the utilities.
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Another $1 billion natural gas pipeline, PennEast, is still being fought, with a closely watched eminent domain case pending before the Supreme Court.
Five more targets of activists facing uncertain futures are:
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Dakota Access, which this spring, the Biden administration declined to order the oil pipeline to shut down while it completes an environmental review, dealing a blow to green groups and Native American tribes that had sought to stop it from operating.
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The $9 billion Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline expansion in northern Minnesota has been the subject of protests this week, leading to tense standoffs with police and the arrests of more than 160 people. Enbridge is looking to replace an aging pipeline to transport crude from Canada’s Alberta oil sands through the state's watersheds and tribal lands to Superior, Wisconsin. Environmentalists are pressing their case in court.
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Enbridge’s Line 5. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered the 645-mile pipeline operated by the same Canadian energy company, Enbridge, to shut down, citing risks that the pipeline could leak or spill oil.Enbridge is defying the order, however, saying the governor does not have the authority to shut it.
Biden does not have any authority over the Trans Mountain pipeline, an expansion project taken over by the Canadian government that would carry an additional 535,000 barrels a day of oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the coast of British Columbia.
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Federal energy regulators voted in December to allow the developers of the Mountain Valley pipeline to do construction near a 25-mile area that includes going through the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.But several of the permits for the $6.2 billion Mountain Valley pipeline, a 303-mile project that would carry natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia, are under legal scrutiny, and its cost has nearly doubled.
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