Obama is killing the Keystone XL pipeline

President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, moving to bolster his environmental legacy after reviewing for seven years what’s become the nation’s most heated political dispute over climate change, jobs and energy development.

There is an already existent pipeline but this one would have been an expansion running from the oil sands in Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska joining the existing pipe line.

The pipeline would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the gulf coast.

Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke said Obama was turning his back on the American worker, and Republican Senator Steve Daines said the decision reveals what he called the president’s anti-jobs agenda.

The company’s president and CEO added that TransCanada is still committed to the building of the pipeline and plans to look over the reasons for Obama’s rejection of their plans. “This pipeline has supported high-paying jobs in our area since 2010, and Keystone XL promised to do the same for thousands more American workers”. When announcing its rejection, Obama said that it has taken “an overinflated role in our political discourse”.

“While we understand the impact of this decision on Canada, I am confident that our close and long-standing relationship with Canada will continue to grow stronger in the years ahead”.

Lever said the Keystone XL project isn’t totally dead but is effectively “on hold”, something that could change if a more pipeline-friendly administration gains power in the United States. Such a basic switch in positions can be a shocking move for Obama, who has insisted in that the USA … Specifically, the national average gas price is down to about $0.77 over a year ago, while a boom in shale-oil extraction in North Dakota, Pennsylvania and elsewhere has reduced the United States’ dependence on foreign oil.

What do you think about President Obama’s decision? I am disappointed in the president’s decision on Keystone.

Obama will travel to Paris at the end of the month for talks on a global climate agreement. But neither will thwarting the pipeline from being built. If they needed somebody to show them how to put a pipeline in the ground safely, they should have come to Louisiana-we have a lot of people who know how to do that.