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The early moves from the Biden Administration raise serious questions about the commitment to the so-called “just transition” for energy workers.
The executive orders to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and ban new leasing for oil and natural gas development on federal lands has resulted in tens of thousands of workers and hundreds of small businesses facing economic devastation at the single stroke of a pen without any type of support.
These orders fly in the face of the campaign pledges made last year by candidate Joe Biden, fringe Democrats, and progressive activist groups who promised a smooth change transition to gainful employment in other sectors of the energy industry.
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Alongside Johnson was Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington.
February 8, 2021
Johnson was joined by Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington.
After President Joe Biden signed an executive order canceling the work permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, small town communities like Philip are left to fill a hole in their local economies.
“Philip’s been a town for quite a while, it’s been slowly – I would say – getting smaller,” said Brandon West, the owner of 73 Bar & Lounge/Motel West. “This is an opportunity, I felt like, to grow our community and now, we’re going to be at a loss.”
By: Governor Kristi Noem
It may seem cliché, but energy independence is a matter of national security. The United States is a net exporter of energy, which means that we can guarantee our ability to provide for our own energy needs, no matter what situation that the world may throw at us.
With that in mind, I was terribly disheartened to hear that President Biden cancelled the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have helped secure America’s energy independence for years to come.
This issue strikes close to home for us here in South Dakota. Last year, TC Energy – the company building the pipeline – estimated that the project would bring 3,500 jobs to our state. Many of those jobs were already in place, as crews were laying the groundwork for the eventual pipeline itself.
First of all, letâs disabuse ourselves of the notion that the Keystone XL pipeline was merely about getting oil from A to B. It wasnât. Keystone was about opportunities, dreams, jobs, and lives. It was about real people. It was also about the ennobling nature of work, and especially
hard work â and all this is why Beltway elitists like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and John Kerry and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could so blithely shut it down.
Just the stroke of a pen. Thatâs all it took.
A brief history: The 1,700-mile Keystone pipeline was first proposed in 2008 during the George W. Bush administration. When completed, it was expected to carry some 800,000 barrels of oil per day from the oil sands of the western Canadian province of Alberta to the Bakken formation spanning eastern Montana and western North Dakota, where it would be mixed with American light crude and then sent southward to our refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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MORE AUTOMAKERS ABANDON TRUMP ROLLBACK: More major automakers, including Toyota and Fiat Chrysler,
Donald Trump s regulatory rollbacks to get in the Biden administration’s good graces.
Seven companies said today that they were dropping support for the Trump administration s effort to limit California’s ability to set its own tailpipe greenhouse gas limits. In a joint statement, the companies said they made the decision in a “gesture of good faith and to find a constructive path forward” on fuel economy standards with the Biden administration.