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Executive Order on Keystone Pipeline

Floor Speech

By: Jim Baird
By: Jim Baird
Date: Feb. 4, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Oil and Gas

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Mr. BAIRD. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to President Biden's executive order to revoke the permit for the Keystone pipeline.

This decision was political, provides no benefit to the environment, and it came at a cost of approximately 11,000 good-paying American jobs.

President Biden cited concerns regarding climate change for his reason on stopping the pipeline. But under President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department conducted a review and found the pipeline to have minimal impact on the environment.

Now, instead of having the pipeline, the oil from Canada will now be transported in less safe ways like trucks and railways.

Axing the Keystone pipeline destroyed thousands of jobs, won't reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, and only will deepen the divide on the issue of climate change.

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