Alberta leader says Biden's move to cancel Keystone pipeline a 'gut punch’

Environmental groups in Canada applaud decision, but country's western provinces left in disbelief

Joe Biden's move to cancel a controversial pipeline project has hit Canada like like a gut punch", according to one political leader, and left the country to weigh the future prospects of its ailing oil and gas industry.

On 20 January, one of the US president's first executive orders was to reverse approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on a campaign promise to kill the project as part of a broader strategy to address the climate crisis.