President Biden’s decision to deny the pipeline to be finished is a bad decision. The Key stone Pipeline is a huge pipeline that would be coming from Canada cutting through Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska seeing that it would be adding to the already huge existing pipeline. The existing pipeline runs through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and ending in either Illinois, or Texas. The Pipeline is very controversial for the fact that it affects not only jobs but also the environment and there are a lot of people who support President Biden’s decision who only care about the environment.
The Pipeline will bring many jobs even if it is temporary. The State Department states that at estimated about 42.000 jobs over the two year time it takes to be built. 3,900 would be in actual construction everyone else would be more indirectly affecting it, such as food service. Though it is estimated that it would create about 35 permanent jobs. The report states that the pipeline would bring about $3.4 billions in the U.S. economy. The State Department review concluded that even if the pipeline were not built, global oil demand is such that companies would continue to develop the Alberta oil sands and bring the petroleum to market in other ways. The oil could come by rail or by building other pipelines. But moving oil by rail has its own hazards. As transport has increased in recent years, so have explosions of rail cars carrying oil.
Building the pipeline would also help provide a conduit for oil from a friendly ally, Canada, and cement trade relations for the United States and Canada. “The Government of Canada continues to support the Keystone XL project and the benefits that it will bring to both Canada and the United States,” Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman said in a statement. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Twitter that he is “deeply concerned” by the reports signaling the cancellation of the pipeline. “Doing so would kill jobs on both sides of the border, weaken the critically important Canada-U.S. relationship, and undermine U.S. national security by making the United States more dependent on OPEC oil imports in the future,” he added. Construction of the pipeline is well under way in Canada, with the international border crossing already complete, Reuters noted. And the U.S., work has begun on the pump stations in every state along the path.
The oil industry characterized the move as the latest turn of the screw in the long-running legal battle. “Pipelines like KXL are the backbone of our nation’s energy infrastructure and one of the most environmentally sound ways to transport the fuel and petroleum products that power America,” said Robin Rorick, vice president of midstream operations for the American Petroleum Industry, which lobbies for oil companies. “The pipeline has passed every environmental review conducted for it. In fact, a total of six assessments by both the Obama and Trump administrations concluded that KXL is safe to build,” Mr. Rorick said. “Calls to conduct identical environmental reviews makes no sense and are a waste of tax dollars.”
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-kill-keystone-xl-pipeline
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