Posted on 01/30/2021 9:15:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, SD, was filled with men and women who work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most of these union laborers, welders and pipefitters started their day over a cup of coffee in the hotel’s common room before heading out to their jobs.
By 4 p.m., the entire place was cleared out, leaving the historic hotel silent for the first time since owners Laurie and Wally Cox took it over six months ago.
“Our whole world turned upside down with the stroke of a pen,” Laurie said.
She is speaking of President Biden’s executive order, signed on his first day in office, that halted work on the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota and immediately eliminated 1,000 union jobs. TC Energy, the company that was developing the project, predicts that more than 10,000 jobs will be lost in 2021 due to the order.
Now Laurie, who holds a master’s degree in social work, sits alone in the vacant hotel while her husband Wally finds work as a millwright hours away. She starts to cry as she recalls how they bought the building in late September and quickly turned it into an affordable and social place for pipeline workers to stay.
“We structured our prices to suit the per diems of each trade,” she said. “We created a common room because there is a real sense of community within these workers, and we thrived since the day we opened our doors.”
Since Jan. 20, “the entire town became an instant ghost down.”
The XL pipeline wasn’t the only project stopped by Biden’s pen. On Wednesday, he issued an executive order halting oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on federal lands and waters.
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They can turn it in to a solar panel factory.
Halp us Jon Keree. We ar stuk making $120,000 a year in South Dakota.
Ridiculous point of view.
Destroying alternatives is how you jack up the price for the existing plutocrats.
No, he is a communist. And, doing exactly what his owners tell him to do.
China Chomo Joe IS for the little guy.
It don’t get much littler then a Chinese slave laborer.
By that same reasoning please tell me what job is not temporary.
All are. So, Fing what? That doesn’t mean you can “morally” deliberately kill off jobs that a community needs to survive just because one of your financial donors profits by your killing the incoming competition.
This is not about jobs for me, but not for thee. It is about deliberately destroying the middle class. That is one of the goals.
Yes, but do they still vote dem?
Do the unions still vote dem?
The posters who believe that on reddit are idiots if they think this is fake news and everyone just grabs their lunch pail and moves to the next pipeline project. This has been in the works for years and was going to take years to complete. Entire supply lines have been resourced and established. Housing. Food. Equipment. Machinery. People. Steel. Supplies. They know nothing about business, manufacturing, or construction.
Cruelty. Biden is not just stupid, he is cruel and evil to boot
AND picked a FLATBACKING wench as VP !!!
Yep, if all the plumbers, trashmen and truck drivers stopped working for a month, it would get peoples attention.
They are such ignorant sheep it boggles the mind.
Crap. I work from home.
You will be happy when the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere takes 5 years longer to rise from 0.0417% to the catastrophic 0.0450% which will give us 5 extra years before the atmosphere self combusts
I would love to see either the Republican party or some rich patriot start tv commercials with out of work folks from these jobs talking about losing their income, insurance, college dreams for their kids, their homes, everything. Get it going!
Oil from the Alberta oil sand field could easily be sent to China via the Mackenzie River in and around the ice-free season.
look where the oil lies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_oil_sands
They know nothing about business, manufacturing, or construction.
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Been involved in petrochem engineering and construction for 31+ years. Your comments are right on the money. The construction supply chains are not like a light switch to be turned on and off and involve real people with real responsibilities(families, homes back home, children, hopes and dreams, etc). “Getting it done” is even tougher when the project(s) are in “the middle of nowhere” and constantly moving as progress is made.
The pipeline is not the only project being “wrecked”. Multiple projects I’m aware of are now seeing this and getting cold feet thinking or saying “So you mean all of our permits, manhours planning and procuring and building can be destroyed by a so-called Executive Order?”.
Would you invest if your project could be trashed at anytime?
Not for dictators.
But the article isn’t only about the pipeline, but drilling operations on Federal land and also offshore drilling were all shut down day 1 of the Regime.
The reality of what stopping a pipeline actually does. Not so green, is it?
Biden made it crystal clear during the debates that he would gut the oil and gas industries on day one. Despite this, he won New Mexico by 10% over President Trump. The New Mexico voters made their choices, and now Biden is doing exactly what he said he would do. Why didn’t these voters vote to protect their own economic interests instead of voting for Biden simply because they hated Trump? Now they have to live with the consequences. But, never fear. The MSM will tell them green jobs are coming and the downturn in the economy is Trump’s fault. It may take awhile for those jobs to arrive and the children in school will have to make due with inferior resources and teachers. But, that is the price that must be paid to usher in a new era of “equity” where everyone, except the elites, are miserable.
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