Posted on 01/17/2021 7:15:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first acts in office, and perhaps as soon as his first day, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, had made building the pipeline a central promise of his presidential campaign. Biden, who will be inaugurated on Wednesday, was vice president in the Obama administration when it rejected the project as contrary to its efforts to combat climate change.
The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions likely scheduled for the first day of Biden's presidency, according to an earlier report https://bit.ly/3nP4993 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC).
Biden, a Democrat, had earlier vowed to scrap the oil pipeline's presidential permit if he became president.
Canada's ambassador to the United States said she would continue to promote a project that she said fit with both countries' environmental plans. "There is no better partner for the U.S. on climate action than Canada as we work together for green transition," Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said in a statement.
The project, which would move oil from the province of Alberta to Nebraska, had been slowed by legal issues in the United States.
It also faced opposition from environmentalists seeking to check the expansion of Canada's oil sands by opposing new pipelines to move its crude to refineries.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Twitter that cancellation would eliminate jobs, weaken U.S.-Canada relations and undermine American national security by making the United States more dependent on OPEC oil imports.
TC Energy Corp., which operates the pipeline, said it would achieve net zero emissions by 2023 when it enters service. The company also pledged to use only renewable energy sources by 2030
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My neighbor is a rabid democrat.
She is self employed and is struggling and is soon going to be a single mom. She honestly has no idea how much her vote is going to cost her.
Utilities, gas, taxes, interest- boom- through the roof.
I cannot WAIT to hear her complain.
Oh, and think about your 401ks and retirement funds. They also want that- certainly isn’t fair for you to have this big fat UNDESERVED financial cushion when all the illegals come here with nothing- right?
Don’t get me wrong- I love her to death but she is so anti-Trump and I am going to GENTLY help her understand the consequences of electing a failed 40 year traitor, bought and sold to China politician who openly molests kids to the Office of the President of the United States.
You a re talking like you think our votes will ever matter again.
I am making tools for the pipeline here at my business, or at least I was for the sluice valves. Baker Oilfield immediately shut down the entire project on a conference call the day after the election.
Peruse later.
An Alberta assassination team is on it’s way to Biden’s inauguration. ( sarc.)
They are royally pissed off in Alberta over this. Joe is already hated in Western Canada.
That didn’t take long.
Biden said he is going to:
1. Destroy US energy independence
2. Destroy US borders, US sovereignty
3. Finance middle east terrorism via Iran after historic peace agreements were reached.
4. Burn billions in US tax money via the Climate scam
5. Destroy the US economy with higher taxes and a ridiculous nationwide $15 minimum wage hike which will obliterate small businesses especially after they have suffered through a pandemic
AND HE’S HASN’T EVEN TAKEN OFFICE YET.
And storming the Capital was a bad thing? To me they didn’t go FAR ENOUGH!
Everyone fill up your cars while he’s giving his acceptance speech as a peaceful protest. And before gas prices shoot up.
What is sacred to the Left is the Us vs They calculation.
The Left will largely dismiss anything their elites do, and the elites know it. But what is really sacred to the elites is the ability to get rich in office. Shakedowns are just the way they roll. They use rhetoric about things like quid pro quo as one would expect for the hypocrites they are, for ever since FDR the Democrats have embodied the very abuses they complain about in others most loudly.
So I’ll not be surprised to learn that Biden will only threaten and then relent, but also that in the wake of it all important Democrats will enrich themselves as payoff for them relenting.
And the Left wing masses will accept it because contrary to what Marx asserted it is really their ideology which is the perfect opiate of the masses: for it gives them zeal without all that messy righteousness guff. It also blinds the socialists, consider how many sent to the gulags white respectful, even loving letters to Stalin pleading their case when he was the sadist enjoying sending them away.
And of course they will then blame it on the greedy oil companies.
but the FAKE “fact checkers” told us last year, that this was nonsense and would never happen.
In other words, making us have to buy from enemy countries when we do so well on our own.
I am so p*ssed.
Gas prices around here have already jumped over 45 cents in the past month (NE Alabama). I told my wife they would hit $2.50 (from around $1.80 just last year) before May. Looks like I am going to get there much earlier. Station down the road hit $2.25 Saturday. With these punks closing down the fracking and gas pipe line, prices are going over $3.00 here in the south again and we have about the lowest prices around. My friend up in WA state is already telling me they are near $3.00.
Food costs are going to skyrocket as well as everything else that needs to be trucked or flown in. These liberals have no idea what is coming down the pipeline.
I will, of course, point the finger in their eye and place the blame squarely on them.
During republican administrations, I stockpile cash and ammo because of future democrat administrations.
Done that since 1980. Pays off.
Premier Kenney actually spoke at a 10:00 AM press conference about how damaging the cancelling of Keystone would be to, not just ALBERTA’s economy but CANADA’s economy AND US energy independence. As the CBC Newsworld broadcast it live, in its entirety, across Canada, hopefully some of the idiots in ON and QU will have got the message that killing Keystone kills CANADA’s economy, including THEIRS!
ON and QU putting pressure on Trudeau MAY convince him to push Harris, I mean Biden, on the issue.
THAT would take a PM with intestinal fortitude. Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister. Nothing more need be said.
Those that love slow Joe:
Opec, Iran, China, Antifa, BLM, Jihadists, anarchists, democrat regulators, democrat politicians, media, professors, central American invaders, communists, greeny weenies, social media magnates and on and on.
True. Just ask the people of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec! Unfortunately, 47 of them could not be reached for comment.
Western Canada is like a northern suburb of Texas. We have a lot in common. Except the language eh?
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