President Trump signed an executive order on Friday greenlighting the Keystone XL pipeline after it cleared State Department review to bring tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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“Nebraska is the only state now among the states that this pipeline could potentially threaten that has not given a state permit”.
A presidential permit for Keystone XL reverses the veto by then president Barack Obama in late 2015, who rejected the project on environmental grounds. President Donald Trump planned to address Keystone during an announcement on Friday morning, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Twitter.
Patrick DeHaan, an analyst for the price-tracking service GasBuddy.com, said the pipeline could lead to higher prices for Canadian crude oil, which has long sold at a discount. Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts said the Keystone XL will generate an estimated $11.8 million in property tax revenue in one year for the counties the pipeline would traverse. But he said there are other important projects like the recently approved TransMountain pipeline that will allow for exports to Asia.
Without the pipeline, Carr said the oil would move by the more risky method of rail. -Canadian border comes as a result of President Donald Trump’s January 24 executive order to expedite infrastructure projects.
TransCanada has said it will use the best materials and technology to build and maintain the pipeline, which will travel under the Missouri River, but many of those in the walk said it’s not a question of if the pipeline will break, but, when.
“We hope we can show that it’s an imminent threat to the aquifer, the land and the people who live here”, he said. It would move roughly 800,000 barrels of oil per day. It claimed that therefore the pipeline decision would have no bearing on USA standing.
Kleeb vows to stop the pipeline once again. Completing it required a permit to cross from Canada into the U.S. Years of politicking, legal wrangling and disputes over the pipeline’s route preceded Obama’s decision to nix the project.
It’s nice to see that the State Department’s approval of Keystone XL re-establishes some certainty and sanity to a permitting process that was hijacked by political pandering. “That doesn’t have an impact on US gas prices”.
Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the U.S., at about 3.4 million bpd. There the Keystone XL pipeline will connect with a preexisting line.
Instead, TransCanada has received the permit to begin construction using the steel it has already contracted or purchased, which comes entirely from Canada and India.
Environmentalists, First Nations and others opposed to the potential climate impacts from the 1,900-kilometre pipeline say they’ll keep trying to derail it through grassroots movements – and they are warning the financial community directly. And Trump’s touting of the number of jobs to be created by the project – hyperbolic by most estimates – could also draw increased scrutiny to its economic benefits, particularly for the blue-collar tradesmen whose lot the president has promised to improve. The department also said 42,100 indirect jobs would be created during construction related to food, housing and other services for workers.
And once it’s built, operation of the pipeline would only need 35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors, according to that report.
Trump touted the approval as being a big job creator, and TransCanada CEO Russell Girling said the pipeline would create “thousands of jobs”.
Alberta premier Rachel Notley said Friday the construction of Keystone XL could net the province as many as 5,000 jobs. But his administration has already given Keystone a pass. TransCanada has already acquired the steel for the project, and the White House has said it’s too hard to impose Trump’s requirement on a project already under construction. But plenty of obstacles lay ahead for the builders.
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Trump, told of the hiccup, pledged his help. The president punctuated that by saying, “I’ll call him today”.
