Canada’s Alberta Province Files Trade Challenge Over Scrapped Keystone XL Pipeline

A depot used to store pipes for TC Energy Corp's planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne, N.D., on Jan. 25, 2017. Terray Sylvester/Reuters

CALGARY, Alberta—The Canadian province of Alberta on Wednesday formally initiated a trade challenge to recover its investment in the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which was scrapped in 2021 after the United States cancelled a key permit.

Alberta, Canada’s largest oil-producing province, had invested C$1.3 billion in the project and is seeking compensation from the United States through a legacy North American Free Trade Agreement claim, under the new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.