15. Keystone Pipeline Chaos: Oil Politics Divide Neighbors
The $8 billion pipeline extension would have carried 830,000 barrels of Canadian oil sands crude daily to U.S. refineries. Environmentalists fought it as a climate disaster while Canadian officials called it critical infrastructure. The project became a political football. Obama delayed it. Trump approved it. Biden canceled it. Billions in investments and thousands of jobs disappeared. Canadian politicians from both parties saw its cancellation as a betrayal.
