"Keystone XL Pipeline: US judge orders halt on construction", 9 Nov 2011

A United States judge has blocked the construction of a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the US.  The judge in the state of Montana said the Trump administration had "discarded" facts when it approved the Keystone XL Pipeline in 2017...The state department has now been ordered to do a more thorough review of the effect on issues like the climate.  The administration can appeal against the decision.  But groups that have been seeking to block the $8bn (£6bn) project are celebrating...[I]t has been the subject of protests for more than a decade, both from environmentalists and Native American groups, who say it will cut through their sovereign lands.  Mr Obama rejected the scheme in 2015...citing concerns over it increasing US dependence on fossil fuel...President Donald Trump reversed the decision...Judge Brian Morris...said construction could not go ahead until a more thorough review of the impact on the climate, cultural resources and wildlife was conducted...