That seemed more likely than ever on Tuesday morning, when Trudeau announced that the Canadian government would buy the contested pipeline outright, so that it could finish its construction, over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous people.
Orders range from dramatic reverses of policy, like Mr Trump's approval for the construction of two bitterly contested oil pipelines, to ordinary business, such as Mr Obama's instructions on half-day closing for government departments on Christmas Eve 2015.
TransCanada shut down a portion of its highly contested Keystone Pipeline, which transports oil from the Canadian tar sands to refineries in the U.S., at 6 a.m. on Thursday after 210,000 gallons, or around 5,000 barrels, of oil spilled across South Dakota farmland.
Construction may resume on a stretch of the contested Dakota Access Pipeline near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, a federal court ordered Sunday evening. .
Last week, the administration bowed to pressure from protesters, environmental groups, and residents and officials in Nebraska in announcing that it would delay a decision on the bitterly contested Keystone XL oil pipeline until after the 2012 election.
In September, the U.S. government agreed to halt construction of the pipeline on contested land, but only temporarily. .
He cited the signing of Ceta – the free trade deal between the EU and Canada – and a hotly contested decision to approve two pipelines as examples of this approach.
The company proposing a contested oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast had a related pipeline that it operates shut down over the last two days after the line experienced power problems.
Canada has approved Kinder Morgan Inc's hotly contested plan to twin a pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast, setting up a battle with environmentalists who helped elect the prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
In written responses to questions, Yukos initially contested that oil or the Chinese pipeline led to the clash.
