Thune: Keystone XL Pipeline a Preview of Positive Actions for the American People

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Thune: Keystone XL Pipeline a Preview of Positive Actions for the American People

“President Trump has taken quick action to free up employment and economic opportunities by making it easier to complete these shovel-ready infrastructure projects.” 

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement after President Trump took administrative action to move the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access pipeline closer to approval.

“For eight years, former President Obama impeded progress on the Keystone XL pipeline, and in the process crushed thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic investments. President Trump has taken quick action to free up employment and economic opportunities by making it easier to complete these shovel-ready infrastructure projects. Moving forward on these pipeline projects, particularly the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, provides a preview of good things to come for the American people.”

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10 thoughts on “Thune: Keystone XL Pipeline a Preview of Positive Actions for the American People”

  1. Boil those tar sands to extract a huge resource of oil
    Drill Baby Drill in the Artic and other areas
    Build new nuclear plants that will be far more advanced than the old ones built in the 70s.
    Recycle nuclear fuel and open up Yucca Mountain & New Mexico for nuke waste disposal.
    We will create an abundance of jobs, fire up the economy become even more energy independent & selling the excess.

  2. Why is Trump facilitating China? With the Keystone Pipeline, America is merely a conduit for Canada in Canada’s ability to send its tar sands crude to China. The Keystone Pipeline does nothing to enhance America’s energy independence…

    You all know China, that is the country that Trump claims is a “currency manipulator” and is violating international law with its aggressive militaristic policies in the South China Sea….

    1. Canada announced couple years ago that they will build a pipeline to their west coast to supply China. This pipeline is more than just supplying China with oil. Canada doesn’t need Keystone to do this.

  3. Finally, I have been a proponent of Keystone XL Pipeline, and the Dakota Access Pipeline since I heard of them. They are the safest way to transport oil. This country could be energy independent if we were smart enough. I heard Rush Limbaugh say today; that the real reason the radical environmentalists so oppose pipelines, oil drilling, and coal mining has nothing to do with the environment. It is because they are anti-Capitalist. Having been a Socialist, I heartily agree.

    1. Break out the Cigars! There will be fortunes to be made! $$$$ Make America Great Again $$$$$$

  4. Clause,

    Actually, Canada was going to build a pipeline to its west coast if Keystone wasn’t built which would make China the best/most likely buyer. With the approval of Keystone, the oil will be processed into fuel in the US at our refineries* AND can then be piped back to our filling stations right here in the US.

    * Because the type of oil to be piped via Keystone, some of the refineries will have to be retrofitted but they can do it in the time it takes to construct Keystone.

    1. That is not true. Because Canadian tar sands crude can never compete with the lower cost crude production costs from the Bakkens and the Midland, Texas area.
      That is why China is the main customer, whether it ships via Vancouver or New Orleans; not to mention, the increased toxic qualities of any potential tar sands production in our country, which we do not need in our environment.

      When you realize that China is the only country which can realistically match the US in the size of its naval fleet in this century, the thought of tar sands crude being shipped out of the Gulf area only further emboldens the Chinese to walk into the Gulf, our backyard, with their greater naval presence, thus, potentially placing a self serving and self justified hegemonic reality upon our Caribbean and Central and South American neighbors by the Chinese at our national security cost, yet for Canada and China, it will be obvious gains.

      1. China’s fleet nowhere compares to that of the US. They have made gains in the last few years, including their first aircraft carrier. Hmm, wonder who was President during their naval expansion? Oh, yeah . . . it was Obama.

        1. Actually, there expansion has and will continue under many American Presidents throughout the 21st century regardless of party affiliation.

          You are right, though, that currently our navy is way superior to the Chinese navy, but growth estimates see definite parity in the future, however.

          Why do you think it is that a Hong Kong consortium is currently buildings its own canal through Nicaragua to rival the Panama Canal and why China has been in talks with Namibia to have greater access to the South Atlantic and thus the Caribbean? Its because they want to rival US influence in the western hemisphere and the Keystone Pipeline will give them an accuse to do that….

          Last Friday, Trump talked about “America First,” but with the help of the Keystone Pipeline is looks more like “China First.”

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