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Construction on the 1,200-mile pipeline was halted by Joe Biden within his first hours of taking office in 2021.

Donald Trump has vowed to restart the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline after it was scrapped by Joe Biden over fears about its impact on climate change.

Construction of the 1,200-mile line began during Trump’s first term as the Republican envisaged 830,000 barrels of crude being transported daily from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Nebraska.

But Biden canceled the pipeline’s border crossing permit hours after taking office in January 2021 due to longstanding concerns that burning oil sands crude could make climate change harder to reverse.

Writing on Truth Social on Monday evening, Trump invited Calgary-based TC Energy to restart the project, promising “easy approvals” and an “almost immediate start.”

The President wrote: “Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just thinking, that the company building the Keystone XL Pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden Administration should come back to America, and get it built — NOW!”

He added: “If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!”

Plans for Keystone XL were first shot down in 2015 by Barack Obama, who argued that greenlighting the project would show the U.S. is not taking “serious action” on meeting climate targets.

“Frankly, approving that project would have undercut that global leadership, and that is the biggest risk we face: not acting,” he said at the time.

But it was soon approved by his successor, Trump, before the Biden administration moved to shut it down on day one of the Democrat reaching the Oval Office in 2021.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had objected to Biden’s move, with officials in Alberta expressing anger after the province invested more than $1 billion in the project.

They had hoped the pipeline would bring tens of billions of dollars in royalties to the region over the next few decades, while encouraging development in the oil sands.

But climate change activists protested in major cities against Keystone XL, labeling it an environmental disaster that could speed up global warming as the fuel is burned.

Its cancellation was hailed as a “landmark moment” in the effort to curb the use of fossil fuels.

Alberta – located in Western Canada on the border of Montana – has the fourth largest crude oil reserves in the world after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran