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Canceling Keystone XL Means Oil Goes to China, Other Countries, or Less Safe Rail


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Look, they’re going to pump the oil, and it’s going to go someplace. It’s too valuable not to, and we still need the oil. So, it’s either going to be shipped to other countries, including China, which has not the same type of environmental regulations that we have when it comes to the processing of that oil, or it could come back down into the United States to the specific locations where they actually know how to process it, to actually do that crude oil,” Rounds told Fox News in an interview aired on Jan. 23.

“This was the most efficient way to do it. It’s still going to get moved, but now they’re probably going to have to go to rail cars, and when you go to rail cars, it’s not as safe. And so, this was simply the most efficient way to move about 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day, that now will probably go either by rail or it’ll go to another country.”

Rounds said the decision will divert a lot of the oil onto rail cars, displacing grain shipments from his state. He also lamented the loss of 10,000 future jobs, including 2,000 Americans who were on the job when Biden signed the executive order gutting the project.

Keystone XL is the fourth phase of construction of the Keystone pipeline, which adds a branch connecting terminals in Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska, through a shorter route using a larger diameter pipe.

It has drawn attention since environmentalists singled out the project as a symbol of the fight against fossil fuels and for natural preservation. After President Barack Obama temporarily delayed the project in 2015, President Donald Trump issued a presidential permit in 2017 to allow the project to go forward.

Biden revoked Trump’s order on Jan. 20.

TC Energy Corp. is planning to eliminate more than 1,000 construction jobs related to the halt of the pipeline expansion project. According to the Association of Oil Pipe Lines’ CEO Andy Black, the move is tantamount to “killing 10,000 jobs and taking $2.2 billion in payroll out of workers’ pockets [and] is not what Americans need or want right now.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/republican-senator-cancelling-keystone-means-oil-goes-to-china-other-countries-or-less-safe-rail_3668876.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-24-3

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1 minute ago, BarryLaverty said:

It does nothing to fight the phony climate change horse sheet .... the oil is still going to be moved, just by non U.S. workers to other countries ... it's a double loss for Americans ... it kills valuable jobs and increased our dependence on foreign oil .... it only makes the ignorant tree huggers happy ....

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2 hours ago, JETT said:

Biden canceling this pipeline does any good come from it? I dont understand why he canceled it someone enlighten me

Why?  Because he’s an idiot and pandering to the left.  This project was good for America.  Did you not read the article? Roll your eyes if you hate America 

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2 hours ago, BoHogg said:

» Rising carbon emissions and other pollutants from the heavy crude transported by Keystone XL will also incur increased health care costs. Emissions also increase both the risk and costs of further climate instability
 

lmfao!! What a load of 🐴 💩 

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1 hour ago, Youngcoach123 said:

» Rising carbon emissions and other pollutants from the heavy crude transported by Keystone XL will also incur increased health care costs. Emissions also increase both the risk and costs of further climate instability
 

lmfao!! What a load of 🐴💩 

How do? Please go on, doctor. 

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3 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

How do? Please go on, doctor. 

You have thousands of pipelines within 10 miles of you right now Barry. None of them made your health care go up. Your absurd to think it did. That pamphlet was the dumbest stuff I’ve read in weeks. No one with any credibility outside left wing circle jerks thinks that is close to correct.

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1 minute ago, Youngcoach123 said:

You have thousands of pipelines within 10 miles of you right now Barry. None of them made your health care go up. Your absurd to think it did. That pamphlet was the dumbest stuff I’ve read in weeks. No one with any credibility outside left wing circle jerks thinks that is close to correct.

So, you got nothing really. Surprisingly you seemed like your opinion was based on something factual. 🙄

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