Social media and the press is abuzz with the news that Biden plans to scrap the Keystone KL pipeline on his first day in office.
US President-elect Joe Biden is to cancel the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office, North American media report.The pipeline is projected to carry oil nearly 1,200 miles (1,900km) from the Canadian province of Alberta down to Nebraska, to join an existing pipeline.Environmentalists and Native American groups have fought the project for more than a decade.Work had been halted but restarted in 2019 under President Donald Trump.Mr Trump overturned a decision by his predecessor, Barack Obama, who vetoed a bill approving construction in 2015.
If Biden continues as he means to go on, expect the loss of American energy independence and good-paying, technical jobs. But it is a policy priority if the progressive elites can feel good about themselves, and the deplorables who voted for Trump get punished.
Meanwhile, Montana’s representatives were poised for just such a move.
Montana has the longest pipeline segment of any state along Keystone XL’s 1,200-mile route from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline is intended to transport up to 830,000 barrels of crude daily.U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, on news of the Biden transaction briefing, released a portion of a letter he’d already penned with other rural-state lawmakers who expected Biden to cancel the Keystone permit.“Mr. President-elect, during the campaign you challenged America to ‘Build Back Better’ by investing in new infrastructure and energy technologies, creating high-paying blue-collar jobs, and preparing for the energy mix of the future,’” the letter reads. “With these and other commitments, Keystone XL meets that important test. We have to come together to find a way forward, to keep people working, while also creating a new standard for American energy infrastructure.”
And while Canada’s leader is liberal, he also enjoys the taxes brought in from better-paying jobs.
Biden appears to be on course for an early head-to-head with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the $9 billion Keystone XL project, a controversial Canada-U.S. oil pipeline that has been opposed by progressives, environmentalists and indigenous groups.Trudeau has long supported the project despite the protests, arguing it will help reduce reliance on foreign oil imports and create new jobs….Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman said in a statement to Reuters that Trudeau’s government believes Keystone XL is compatible with both countries’ climate action goals. “There is no better partner for the U.S. on climate action than Canada as we work together for green transition,” Hillman said.
Sadly, I fear this is not the last report on the reversals in business and environmental policies that will happen under an administration in which the only science followed is political and the only power it wishes to generate is its own.
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