A presidential approval is required for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access projects because these pipelines cross a border between the U.S. and another country. That's it. If this were a domestic pipeline there would have been no presidential approval required at all.
So if an energy company needs U.S. approval for a pipeline across the border, President Trump is going to include a "Made in the USA" mandate as a condition of his approval -- even for an 80 mile segment of a pipeline between Williston, North Dakota and the Canadian border.
And yet another energy company that wants to build a pipeline along a 1600+ mile route between Williston, ND and Port Arthur, Texas is free to use materials from any source they wish -- foreign or domestic ... because the pipeline is entirely within the U.S.
This is the kind of idiocy I would have expected from the Obama administration. I never would have imagined that I'd see it right here on FreeRepublic.
As I said...