them dakota access pipeline was approved and then stopped. it is in a terminal waiting period. it s another way for them to check off the list of things that he said he wanted to do when you ve selected. bret: charles, environmentalist say this this is dirty, it s going to create more pollution in our country. supporters of the pipelines states very clean compared to doing it on a railway or taking it by truck across the country. they there have never been r arguments against a project that on the keystone pipeline. their assumption is that canada would stop extracting the oil sands in the north in alberta if we didn t have the pipeline. it s absurd. it s a huge resource for canada. it s the canada. it s the future.
that was a completely empty argument for you are right about the pipeline. if it doesn t go by pipeline, this oil, or in the dakota project, it ends up in railcars which is much dirtier. the pollution is at least twice as much and dangerous. there was an accident in quebec of a rail shipment of crude oil that wiped out half a town and dozens of human beings bird we are not talking about abstractions with carbon in the air. there was never a strong argument. it was always to symbolism. the obama administration was craven lee cynical, putting it off because its own state department concluded it was not going to hurt the environment. i agree that in the end, what s going to have the most effect is the directive to streamline the permitting of other projects in the future.
administration policy. all that plus another comment from the president that sets off an afternoon of media fact-checking and heated reaction. chief white house correspondent john roberts has the news from the white house. good evening. the sheer volume of news coming out of this white house and the first couple days worth anything that we ve seen in recent memory. the president has still not shaken his campaign air of propensity to step on his own message. president trump took major steps to resurrect the keystone xl and dakota access pipelines, another opportunity for the president to undo obama-era actions. are going to renegotiate some of the terms and if they would like, we ll see if we can get that pipeline built. a lot of jobs. 28,000 jobs. great construction jobs. the twitter-sphere lit up with protest. condemning the executive order
that was a completely empty argument for you are right about the pipeline. if it doesn t go by pipeline, this oil, or in the dakota project, it ends up in railcars which is much dirtier. the pollution is at least twice as much and dangerous. there was an accident in quebec of a rail shipment of crude oil that wiped out half a town and dozens of human beings bird we are not talking about abstractions with carbon in the air. there was never a strong argument. it was always to symbolism. the obama administration was craven lee cynical, putting it off because its own state department concluded it was not going to hurt the environment. i agree that in the end, what s going to have the most effect is the directive to streamline the permitting of other projects in the future.
executive orders, he attacks them dakota access pipeline was approved and then stopped. it is in a terminal waiting period. it s another way for them to check off the list of things that he said he wanted to do when you ve selected. bret: charles, environmentalist say this this is dirty, it s going to create more pollution in our country. supporters of the pipelines states very clean compared to doing it on a railway or taking it by truck across the country. they there have never been r arguments against a project that on the keystone pipeline. their assumption is that canada would stop extracting the oil sands in the north in alberta if we didn t have the pipeline. it s absurd. it s a huge resource for canada. it s the canada. it s the future.