President-elect Donald Trump will revive the Keystone XL oil pipeline project on his first day in office, three people familiar with the plan said. politiko.
Restarting the project would fulfill a campaign promise and add fuel to President Trump's pledge to cut energy costs, which fueled the Biden administration's inflation.
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This project has a long political history. In 2015, President Barack Obama first denied permission for the project. President Trump reversed President Obama's decision in 2017, and President Joe Biden reversed it again in 2021.
Biden's decision forced the project's developer to abandon and no longer build the pipeline.
“Why would Biden abolish the Keystone pipeline and approve Nord Stream 2, the world's largest pipeline to Germany and all of Europe, the single largest deal Russia has ever made? ” Trump asked during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. “Because they are weak and ineffective.”
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politiko reported Regarding the possibility of project revival:
President Trump believes declaring a return to the 1,200-mile oil project from Canada to Nebraska will further strengthen the pro-oil message he delivered during his campaign, people involved in transition team discussions said. said. Trump also wants to show he can defy President Joe Biden, who overturned Trump's original approval of the project in 2017, which the climate movement strongly opposed.
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Jane Cleave, head of the Nebraska Democratic Party and head of the Bold Alliance, a progressive group that initially fought Keystone XL, said the companies building the pipeline should, at least in Nebraska, He said there is a need to reacquire land for this purpose. . This could reignite bad feelings even among conservative landowners who fear private companies will use eminent domain rights to gain access to their land, Cleave added.
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Calgary-based TC Energy does not own the pipeline system that Keystone XL was intended to complement. And sections of the pipeline that TC Energy had buried underground in both Canada and the United States in anticipation of cross-border permit approval were dug up. To replace that pipe, the company that wants to rebuild it will need to re-obtain local permits for the project.
According to a 2022 poll, 71% of Americans support restarting the Keystone XL pipeline.
The idea of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline, even if only for symbolic reasons, is mentioned in Agenda: What should President Trump do in his first 100 days? By Joel B. Pollack, Senior Editor, Breitbart News.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
