Biden admin quietly admits canceling Keystone XL Pipeline cost thousands of jobs, billions of dollars | Fox News
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The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report highlighting the positive economic benefits the Keystone XL Pipeline would have had if President Biden didn't revoke its federal permits.
The report, which the Department of Energy (DOE) completed in late December without any public announcement, says the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs and would have had a positive economic impact of between $3.4-9.6 billion, citing various studies. A previous report from the federal government published in 2014 determined 3,900 direct jobs and 21,050 total jobs would be created during construction which was expected to take two years.
But immediately after taking office in January 2021, Biden canceled the pipeline's permits, effectively shutting the project down.
"The Biden administration finally owned up to what we have known all along — killing the Keystone XL Pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana's economy and was the first step in the Biden administration's war on oil and gas production in the United States," Sen. Steve Daines. R-Mont., said Thursday in a statement. "Unfortunately, the administration continues to pursue energy production anywhere but the United States."
"These policies may appeal to the woke left but hurt Montana's working families," he continued. "I'll keep fighting back against Biden's anti-energy agenda and supporting Montana energy projects and jobs."
The DOE was forced to issue the report after Daines and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, successfully inserted a bill mandating the report into the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Biden signed into law in November 2021. The agency was required to publish the report within 90 days of the bill's passage but ultimately waited more than a year before releasing it.
In a statement Thursday, the DOE noted that the project would have had minimal permanent job impacts, but didn't mention the thousands of jobs that were estimated during the construction of the pipeline.
"The U.S. Department of Energy released a report evaluating existing analysis on economic and job effects of the XL portion of Keystone pipeline," the DOE told Fox News Digital. "It concluded there were limited job impacts, with approximately 50 permanent jobs estimated to have been created were the pipeline operational."
Biden's decision to cancel the pipeline has received widespread criticism from Republican lawmakers and energy industry representatives who have argued it would have helped keep gas prices down and ensure energy security.
Keystone XL had been slated to be completed early this year and transport an additional 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the U.S. through an existing pipeline network, according to its operator, TC Energy.
The project labor agreement that TC Energy signed in August 2020 with four labor unions promised the pipeline would create 42,000 American jobs and provide $2 billion in total wages.
TC Energy ultimately gave up on the project in June 2021 as a result of Biden's decision. Last year, a federal judge tossed a legal challenge from nearly two dozen states asking the court to reinstate the pipeline's permits.
"The Department of Energy finally admitted to the worst-kept secret about the Keystone Pipeline: President Biden's decision to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline sacrificed thousands of American jobs," Risch said Thursday.
The Keystone XL Pipeline would have created up to 59,000 jobs and had a positive economic impact of up to $9.6 billion, according to the Department of Energy. (Jason Franson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"To make matters worse, his decision moved the U.S. further away from energy independence and lower gas prices at a time when inflation and gas prices are drastically impacting Americans' pocketbooks," he added.
"The president must turn to American-made energy and jobs rather than dictators and despots to fix the energy crisis he created on his first day in office."
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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Gee, I wonder if anyone remembers hearing that before?
As a Canadian, I've never forgotten it.
How does this effect you Buzz? It doesn't
Why do you ask a question you obviously don't want an answer to?
Somone must have been lining Daines pockets (among other republicans of course, they're such welfare whores) for this to go through, President Biden said NO.
Silly worthless comment.
Remember the source
Gas prices are lower than they have been in some time
What a bogus'article'
Yawn, another ignorant comment. Reality is a bitch. Gas and the price of nearly everything is significant higher than when bozo took office.
And bozo owns it ..... bigly!
No thanks to Joe Biden or Democrats. I do believe they are still higher than when Joe took office.
I don't care what your opinion of an article you didn't bother to read is.
Gas prices when Biden took over averaged $2.17 per gallon.
Today it is 3.70 per gallon and expected to go up.
Pretty sure that global oil prices have very little to do with Biden policies.
And yet when the price of gas comes down a little, he claims credit.
Well he did release reserve oils at a lower than market price which affected the gas
prices temporarily, Democrats shrug, Republicans react in outrage.
Nothing new here.
Say that when Brandon the Human Fuck Up Machine has to replace every last barrel of oil he has stolen from the US Strategic Oil Reserve. Trump bought at a very low price; it is going to cost the US taxpayer a hell of a lot; not to mention the increase in fuel prices; to replace replace it.
So according to you, when gas prices went up, it had nothing to do with any of his policies but when they go down he gets the credit. I guess that means you will give Trump kudos for when prices were even lower then they are under Biden
Those union members should be questioning their own leadership for continuing to support the man and the party which cost them some good-paying jobs.
Fact-check: Is Biden 'destroying 11,000 jobs' by revoking Keystone pipeline?
TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden’s executive order. The 11,000 and $2 billion figures cited in the Facebook post are estimates published by the company, but most of the jobs would be temporary .
The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline by Joe Biden “killed hundreds of jobs, sent gas prices way up.”
are you attempting to dispute the Biden Admin own report?
lol.
Your seed isn't the actual DOE report, it's the Fox News interpretation of the report.
Were the jobs permanent, No. Two years at best.
Union workers are quite used to having projects cancelled, they move on to the next job.
Would the project in any way affect gas prices in the USA or anywhere for that matter, No.
Would it affect inflation, No.
It would only make TC Energy more profitable and their backers the government of Alberta Canada.
just gotta love it when a Democratic Admin puts out a report and leftist sycophants attempt to dispute it.
Exactly, and by shutting down the pipeline construction, those oil sands remain in the ground, were they belong.
The completed section of Phase 3A duplicated and paralleled the existing Keystone line from Nederland TX to Cushing OK, a major storge farm for crude oil and a major hub for several pipelines. Phase 3B provided a 47 mile link to Houston TX.
Those were finished during the Trump Administration.
While not running at capacity this section of pipe allows the pipeline operators to keep tar sands separate from crude now.
These sections were desirable but not needed for anything other than convenience.
For example, the extra oil flowing through the pipes causes a decline in rail car traffic necessary to transport crude oils through 3A, while 3B killed several trucking companies that previously moved crude between Nederland and Houston.
I'm sure they were all Trump sycophants up to that point.
I am sure non leftist sycophants everywhere celebrated their new found wealth when that section of pipe cut through East Texas making everyone rich. /s
The impact from the construction equally blessed and inconvenienced residents of Tyler and Winona for three months. I remember the news people on KTBS interviewing people that thought the pipeline would reduce our need of foreign oil.
That is a misconception, doubly so, since the tar sand oil is Canadian owned by a Candian conglomerate including the government of Alberta Canada and intended for foreign markets, not American.
A US Federal Judge stopped the "second leg" because the Trump Executive order gave the US Army Corps of Engineers carte blanch to waive environmental studies.
When the Trump Administration cancelled $3 billion in contracts for 200,000 ventilators from Hamilton Medical and Vyaire Medical where was the indignation that employees might lose their jobs or that those companies might have been hurt by the no bid emergency contracts they accepted during the COVID panic.
With nearly 120,000 in "stock" the Administration determined there was no longer a need. .. and began cancelling the remaining open contracts. Were there stories condemning Trump for this attack on American jobs?
HHS canceling ventilator contracts, says stockpile is full | PBS NewsHour
Shit happens under every Administration, some people just blow shit all out of proportion for their ideological team.
Twice before cancelled in 2013 and 2015, Trump revived the KXL pipeline in 2017 for political reasons when there was no need for that kind of capacity. Now a third Administration comes along and says " no need " and cancels it again.
People that were never hired, haven't lost anything.
just love it when sycophants dispute the Presidents Admin. own report!
Yet certain folks act like the keystone pipeline would have supplied endless jobs and oil for the US (which is how #45 gave us energy independence which he never did, would, or could).
Had negligible benefits for the US if any
Maybe instead of whining about what could have been, we could talk about the existing Keystone pipeline which just recently came back on line after losing over 600,000 gallons of crude tar sands oil around December 7th.
Funny how little coverage this received while right wing media like JustTheNews and Fox and NewsMax keep rebroadcasting the seeded story as if it was fact and not just an opinion piece on a government report no one has seen fit to publish yet.
only ones whining are Biden fan boys and girls trying to pretend his Admin. didn't say what they said.
Then provide a link to the official report to prove what they said. All you can do is FoxNews fox'splaining to everyone.
I was not able to find it. Perhaps you can?
Other news outlets have reported the same things.
No one but a few NT sycophants have even disputed that the report was made in accordance to law ( except for being late) but you go right ahead.
Prove it wrong!
ALL TEMPORARY WITH MAYBE 50 PERMANENT JOBS
IT'S STUPID TO SAY IT'S BIDEN'S ADMIN. MAKING THESE CLAIMS, IT'S JUST ANOTHER CORRUPT REPUB, DAINES
AND LIKE SP SAID, FAUX 'NEWS'S' INTERPRETATION OF THE REPORT
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Note Tex has not disputed any of our truths? Just keeps repeating the nonsense that this came from the Biden admin. lol
Why do you keep spamming that same comment?
It's obvious you have nothing to dispute the truth from SP, Ozz and others?
Ya got nothing but PP&D plus mis/disinformation
That's no way to go through life son
That's some piss poor research there dude. Why not post the truth rather than Faux 'news's' version of it?
Absolutely no reason why you couldn't have found the actual truthful report rather than your faux version,
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Coming from one who hasn't even read the article, meh..............................lol.
Please stop replying to yourself.
Will you bother to read the report?
Dispute away!
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Dispute away!
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Here, dispute away!
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Awesome, thanks.
I take it by your recalcitrance that you did not read the report or the summary.
The 2010 Perryman Group "study" paid for by TC Energy to convince the US
Government was grossly overly optimistic in its estimates of job creation and included
associated jobs in India, Russia and Canada, not in the USA.
Basically US refineries normally run about 70% of capacity for maintenance reasons as
different sections must be closed and cleaned on a planned rotation. Additional crude
from any source would be useless and would need to be stored at Cushing OK.
When originally proposed in 2008 the US was a net importer of crude oils but steadily
increasing domestic production and development of the Permian Basin turned the US
into an exporter by 2019.
Refiners and oil transporters worked together to reroute existing pipelines,
in one case converting a 30 inch natural gas pipeline to carry Canadian Tar sands,
in other cases reversing the flow direction to carry domestic oil to refineries.
BY 2019 Mr Trump was declaring us to be "energy independent" because we started
exporting crude and LNG.
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Other market factors like COVID, supply chain, inflation, tariffs all combined to make the
three 2010 studies by Perryman Group (TCEnergy) EPRINC, and Ensys irrelevant
to our current situation in 2021, hence Biden revoked the right of way in Montana that
Trump had reversed in 2017 and again in 2020.
Completion of Phase 3, 3A and 3B were all considered important to finish under the
Obama Administration even as Obama cancelled Phase 4 once, in 2013 and again in
2015.
As to the economic impact the bipartisan Senate report concluded that
As an aside, this PolitiFact article cuts to the chase much more directly than the Federal report.
PolitiFact | End of Keystone pipeline did cost jobs, but most were temporary
lots of high paying jobs trashed. billions in dollars gone poof.
go Joe go.
Go team Go.
Keep your eyes closed to reality and follow your leader.
Thank you for the link that disproves almost every aspect of the Fox
"opinion" hit piece.
Go team Go! /s
ooh, sorry, my tolerance of Biden sycophants is a little low these days.
Lots of money could have been made by the folks building the pipeline, and I still wonder why unions support Biden after a fiasco like this. Billions of dollars in economic impact--poof!
Joe built that--keep cheering!
Yeah, man, thousands of high-paying union jobs are completely negligible.
I will try to remember that when Democrats get all huffy about some union demanding higher wages and more work.
Right there is PROOF you never have read the article, as I was pretty sure of all along.
Maybe, just maybe, you could peruse at least the very first sentence in the article.
That way, you will learn that Daines is not making these claims, the report came from Biden's Department of Energy.
Sorry to hear that you are becoming unhinged over nothing.
Do you realize that the Keystone Pipeline was built?
You and other so-called conservatives are bitching about a lack of progress on an increasingly unnecessary section of pipeline,
Doesn't that defy the meaning of the word conservative?
You are clearly unfamiliar with how unions work, color me shocked, again.
Prove it without some imaginary optimistic interpretation of a bipartisan Senate
report that expertly quotes what could have been in the rosiest of rosiest
estimates because we all know that every political pork project creates
thousands of American millionaires. /s Have you seen a Republican Senator
like Kennedy(R) from Louisiana on the news championing this story?
No, because he knows better
No actually it was proposed to the Bush Admin in 2008 and approved for many
phases and continued by the Obama Administration until TCEnergy proposed
abandoning the second pipeline's proposed parallel system following the original
pipeline and instead proposing phase 4,
cutting across the Midwest in a gigantic shortcut previously denied by Bush.
Obama said no in 2013 & 2015, but still the people making the
millions of dollars in Canada persisted.
Trump said yes in 2017 but was shut down by the Courts.
Trump tried to prevail by executive order in 2020,
only to be shut down again by the Courts in November 2020.
Biden took only predictable step by canceling a project already effectively
killed by the courts.
The bottom line is that TC Energy formerly TransCanadaPC owns all of the
Keystone Pipelines and together with the government of Alberta Canada reap all
of the profits, not the USA.
Now if you will excuse me, this class is dismissed.
I am not unhinged nor are they nothing.
Thanks for continuing to prove Reagan right.
You should stay enrolled until you lose that sickening condescending' tude, dude!
Ok, you are overreacting to 12 year old overly optimistic predictions by the contractor's own propaganda reports, since proven wrong but cherry picked out of context by Senator Daines for purely political theater.
Why no news, no speeches or editorials from the seven Republicans who signed off on the summary report you provided the link for?
I can keep reposting the sections of your link that say the estimates were flawed,
or that the economic impact was imaginary,
but I can tell it is a waste of time.
You simply do not want to understand what the report says.
The irony in that lack of self-awareness is truly epic. Thanks for the laugh.
Nonsense.
Thanks for continuing to prove Reagan correct.
stop the constant spamming
If you are not working and trying to support your family even a temporary job is welcome
Aren’t all construction jobs “temporary”?
it is a classicly stupid mistake for anyone to complain about pipeline construction jobs being temporary.
aren't they all?
Oh you optimist you !
All mine were .... but that’s just me ......
Every construction job that I’ve known of has been temporary.
maybe the leftist fools want construction to never be completely finished.
ain't they brilliant?
I would be pissed if I hired a construction company to build my house and they never finished.
Very astute of you
Of course we know that all construction jobs are temporary and rightfully expect construction to be finished at some point.
Folks making arguments against the pipeline because of that are a few bricks shy of a load.
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No, they are getting transported by rail; like they were before. Making Soros very damn happy.
Only idiotic leftists think that shutting down the XL pipeline ended production. It costs more to move it by rail. Is far less safe. But so long as Soros is happy...
Your link doesn't mention rail at all, it only mentions improvements in existing infrastructure and pipelines owned by American companies leading to more volume.
Not mentioned in the link either, I would stop fixating on conspiracy theories.
Only idiotic partisan naysayers would interpret cancelling one proposed pipeline as
"ending production".
Finally, a nugget of truth. 70% of all crude is moved by pipelines, 23% over the oceans
leaving 4% for rail and 3% for trucking which will never go away because they are far
more versatile.
Old article but still true because most of the tarsands move through the existing Keystone Pipeline.
Happy as any billionaire can be I suppose, since he is a major investor in pipelines and
storage facilities but don't let reality intrude into your fantasies about Soros.
George Soros Makes Massive Financial Investments on Fossil Fuels - Tennessee Star
While none of the companies he owns outright involve rail, I am sure his investments include something that triggers your conspiracy theory.
We should also consider how much this may have cost every energy consumer whether at the gas pump, heating their homes, or just how much these higher energy costs have driven inflation higher. It probably cost US Citizens Trillions even if it would only have lowered US energy prices 3%.
The only thing they "considered" was that the previous administration set this up so they had to take it down.
Well it was the same argument prior to the previous Administration
and the same misguided argument about "loss"
which led that Administration to kill the project in 2015.
So it's a democrat thing to kill jobs. Not that it's a surprise
No Jeremy, it's a leadership responsibility, at least that's what Reagan & Bush said
when they started the whole BRAC fiasco, not just killing jobs but whole communities,
towns and regions, killing historical military legacy and giving away prime real estate,
because supposedly we didn't need it anymore.
There is an existing Keystone pipeline,
and it has been determined several times before
that we did not need to build a shortcut across our best farms,
over the nation's largest aquifer
to help the Canadians save a little time & money
while the RISK remains solidly on US soil.
The Keystone Pipeline Is A Lemon. It Just Leaked Again for the 22nd Time | Pipeline Fighters Hub
The more beneficial phases of the pipeline from
Cushing OK to Nederland TX and Houston TX were built under a
Democrat Administration creating many of those temporary construction
jobs.
But don't let facts keep you from making wild sweeping generalizations.
Yo are correct. It was a leadership failure in 2015 and in 2021. Just as you stated. Just happens that in BOTH instances, democrats were those "leaders" and thousands of jobs were lost.
Don't let facts get in your way when spinning bullshit.
How ironic.
Companies in Alberta Canada would be the ultimate beneficiaries of any pipeline designed to take tar sands from Alberta Canada to Houston TX to be refined into kerosene products bound for China.
The only US Benefits might have been from the construction phase and the refining phase.
Refining Tar Sands Oil into kerosene would not have affected gasoline prices anywhere.
Meanwhile the risks would have overwhelmingly been borne by Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, the notorious "second leg" and TC Energy has had a long history of oil spills.
So the story is somewhat like complaining about not winning the lottery because one had not bought a ticket.
It avoided much more damage than it would have "benefited" the USA.
Existing pipelines have since been shown up to the task.
In America? Answer is ZERO. This is Canadian oil, going to the international market, just cutting across America's backyard to get there.
Here's a question for you. How much money will Biden be saving from the cost of cleaning up spills and leaks from this Canadian pipeline?
No, most of Alberta's bitumen is refined in the US after transport by pipeline, rail or marine capability.
Yes.
Canadian oil, taking up at least one of our refineries, to be sold internationally. America gets nothing from it except clean up costs.
The Keystone pipeline leaked in Kansas .
Keystone Pipeline Leaks 14,000 Barrels of Oil in Kansas
Keystone pipeline raises concerns after third major spill in five years
Since it is still moving by rail and OTR truck to US ports; and then heading to China and Europe. Not much.
See post 10.1.6 to see just some of the train derailments involving Canadian Tar Sand Oil; and the amounts involved. I am sure Buffet and Soros are thrilled with Brandon the Human Fuck Up Machine's decision.
It has nothing to do with anything that would affect the US, NOTHING
It would have benefitted us ZERO. Some folks refuse to get that through their thick heads
That is completely, monumentally, stupendously WRONG.
Nope, truth
Liberal=Truth/Reality
I await your predicted response
might be interesting if someone could get a straight answer from the Administrative on this. but I won't hold my breath for that.
"Bridges to Nowhere" are the typical description of unneeded projects that get built as the result of politicly driven pork barrel projects.
Pipelines should be favorites because you cannot see most of them, unlike those pesky bridges.
The current winner is one of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R) projects, one of the bridges built in Alaska which is not attached to a paved road at either end. Only the US military currently uses the disconnected Tanna River Bridge.
I guess when Republicans do it, it's called job creation. If a Dem was responsible, it would be taxpayers' dollars being wasted.
hundreds of good paying jobs if not thousands and billions in dollars blown because Orange Man Bad.
Not true - only temporary jobs while completing.
'Thousands and billions of dollars, - meaning what??? Meaningless nonsense. Comparing apples to oranges.
Biden admin admitted nothing - this is just a hit piece from Steve Daines, R, who must be losing a lot of money because of this, lots of folks must be willing to line his pockets for a piece of the pie but no go.
Thank you, President Biden, for killing this worthless project
Not true
Come back when and IF you ever read the article instead of just wading in to defend Joe and his massive fuck ups.
Not that you'll READ it but here ya go anyway:
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Well, if one reads the ENTIRE sentence, it reads this way:
Hundreds of jobs if not thousands lost.
Billion dollars blown through cancelled contracts, lost wages, etc.
Hope that clears things up for you.
No one is comparing anything, never mind apples or oranges.
Please do, not that it would make any noticeable difference
I would just love to get a straight answer from Biden.
Hell, I would be almost happy just getting a fucking coherent answer from him.
It would indeed make a huge difference if Biden was capable and willing to do so.
Uh oh, his handlers aren’t gonna like that ....
Biden does this as the nimbys fight against Vineyard Wind and it's offshore power generation effort - a fight that goes back to Ted Killer Kennedy.
What the fuck are you talking about? Green energy/wind energy is coming, just get the fuck out of the way
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You think conservatives are the ones standing in of offshore windmills?
.
Yup, they definitely sound like conservatives./S
Yet certain folks act like the keystone pipeline would have supplied endless jobs and oil for the US (which is how #45 gave us energy independence which he never did, would, or could).
Had negligible benefits for the US if any
funny when Biden sycophants dispute his Admin. reports!
lol
There would have been no real benefit to the US whatsoever, has absolutely nothing to do with his Admin. reports!!
According to your 'article', what positive benefits would there have been for the U.S.? Negligible, IF ANY
MINIMAL PERMANENT JOBS - APPROXIMATELY 50 PERMANENT JOBS IF COMPLETED
Negligible benefits, IF ANY, if pipeline were to be completed
US stuck with clean up of leaks and cost WHEN NOT IF they occu
Fuck that!
The cancellation cost hundreds and thousands of good paying jobs and billions of dollars.
I am not going to read the article FOR you, you will have to do it for yourself.
Not true, Only temporary positions during construction. Less than 50 permanent
I see like most republicans, this Daine asshole has all his reich wing talking points down like woke, etc, saying a whole lot of nothing while blaming the DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES AND THE LEFT, AS USUAL
All today's republicans/gqp have is blame others, nothing is ever their fault, EVER. Nor any plans, ideas, or solutions,
I suppose you'll just have to excuse the fuck out of Daines for making the Biden Administration issue the report.
Funny, the bill Congress passed mandating the report didn't say what the Administration had to conclude in it.
"Interesting' hit piece with zero links to the report but awash with links to the author's other opinions which by golly are a never ending wash, rince, repeat cycle. Not a good look fellas.
If you can refute the article, go for it!
Gotta a link to the actual report Tex? The author's version of republican wokeness (yes it exists and in spades) is tiresome.
Do try to keep up.
Here ya go, Dispute away.
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Thanks ... read it and did not see anything in it 'worthy' of even saying 'darn you Joe'! But hey, keep it up ... afterall it worked so well in 2022. /s
Looks like you didn't find anything to dispute in it just like the article.
Wjat article? It's faux news' opinion/lies on the subject
Canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline has no positive impact on the environment and might have a negative one:
Was there a link to this
I would take issue with the last two bullet points.
Do you think that the amount of oil sands refined in the US has declined instead of grown? If a additional pipeline isn’t available, truck and train is the only substitute.
Despite the current Keystone pipeline having been built exclusively to move bitumen products and TCEnergy's plans to try to double up the entire length of the pipeline capacity,
the current Keystone pipeline runs under capacity all of the time.
Truck and rail is unnecessary.
In the first quarter of 2022 they pumped 610,000 barrels per day.
In the second Quarter 2022 they pumped 622,000 barrels per day.
In November 2022 they pumped over 700,000 barrels per day as part of a test.
In December they returned to 622,000 barrels per day until 12/07/2022
when there was a major blow out in a field in Kansas which reportedly lost 660,000 gallons, probably more.
As previously stated elsewhere and acknowledged in the Federal report, there are only 138 refineries, and they don't need more pipelines.
If we built more pipelines to create more temporary construction jobs, how many truckers and railroad people does that put out of work permanently?
No good deed goes unpunished.
The report also enumerated how carriers and refineries worked together from 2010 to 2022 to convert underused pipelines by converting them to carry bitumen or reversing the flow of other products through existing lines.
Since we are now exporting domestic oil and natural gas, why do we need to bend over to Canada's wishes to help them get their exports to the international market?
At the same time, we are the ones that suffer when their pipeline leaks here
over and over again.
I wonder how many derailed tank cars or wrecked semi tanker trailers that represents. my nephew in houston has something to do with managing pipeline logistics for a major oil company. he's also a diehard republican. he told me keystone was unnecessary and only benefited a handful of investors.
TCE must have wanted to just waste money.
Corporations do it all the time under the guise of investment.
TCE now has easements all across the proposed path to sell or reuse.
Do some research. Pipelines cannot support all of the tar sand oil being shipped from Canada.
Rail is just so much safer./S I didn't even list all of the train derailments involving Canadian Tar Sand Oil. Just the ones at the top of my internet browser. I am sure I could dig an find more. Rail tanker cars are old; and haven't been well maintained. They are risky moving anything- much the less Canadian Tar Sand Oil.
Please, there is a shortage of truckers and rail workers.
Guess that blows your worry right out of the water. Easing the amount of tar sands transported by rail and OTR would free up a good portion of our supply chain capacity.
We need more refineries; but mighty mental midget Democrats have made it financially unfeasible to start up refineries; or bring ones that have been shut down back online due to government and environmental restrictions.
Especially when Democrats are in charge.
Instead of processing the Canadian Tar Sand Oil here; it is now going directly to China and Europe. It still passes through the US and gets loaded on overseas tankers to China and Europe- just watch for the next major train derailment involving them. If we are lucky it will take place in Canada.
Guess the US doesn't need the processing money (or the tax money gained from it). We are just providing the ports and loading facilities.
And our refineries don't need it. It's no good for gasoline, only kerosene which is exported to India and China.
Never said that but that is another reason that rail only accounts for 4% of all oil transport.
Maybe a shortage of people who want to work. There are 8 million people voluntarily out of work and 10 million job openings. including hundreds if not thousands of openings at CBP. Nobody wants those jobs regardless of the pay
Fine by me, just pay the tariffs on the way through, as I said we can only make so much kerosene here.
Yes, so much better than Kansas farmlands that the Keystone has ruined.
All covered gloomy Gus. No one skips payment regardless of which country is involved.
Oil Industry Taxes: A Cash Cow For Government | Tax Foundation
U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis
120122-Oil and Gas Tax Revenue (texas.gov)
The Union of Concerned Scientists must have got it wrong:
Bitumen is made of hydrocarbons—the same molecules in liquid oil—and is used to produce gasoline and other petroleum products.
What do those woke do gooder climate change believers know? lol
Bitumen - Production, Extraction, Uses, Prices and FAQs (vedantu.com)
What Is Bitumen Made From? – Bescord
Expense is what drives business, why bother turning a barrel of bitumen into 2 gallons of gasoline when you can take a standard 42 gallon barrel of light crude to produce 20 gallons of gasoline and 20 gallons of diesel fuel?
Bitumen depending on the grade can yield about 20 gallons of Deisel and 20 gallons of asphalt
Very few western Canadian refineries can refine Canandian crude and none of their eastern refineries which is why Canada needs US Mid West and Gulf State refineries.
Exactly, or the Encyclopedia Britannica:
However, most of the bitumen extracted from Canada’s oil sands is upgraded into synthetic crude oil and sent to refineries for conversion into a full range of petroleum products, including gasoline .
And BTW, we certainly don't need anymore asphalt.
India loves that stuff, every road, most shoes, roofing.
We need to outlaw asphalt shingles and go back to brick roads.
LoL, I hear you about shingles.
The future is in solar/ceramic roofing tiles, more or less permanent.
Certainly not as flammable.
People do like those quiet highways though.
Brick done well is more tolerable than cobblestones though.
I recommend you read the entire article.
No positive impact or US
NEGATIVE IMPACT FOR US FOR ALREADY MULTIPLE LEAKS AND POLLUTION WITH NO DOUBT FUTURE SIMILAR DISASTERS
Yes rail transport is so much safer. /s
This is truly the biggest news story on this site. The fact that this agency finally admitted, however tepidly, what Joe Biden did to the nation's energy production.
But you notice how many are trying to spin it to be something else?
I guess that is a personal opinion.
First there is no admission of anything.
Second, they repeated numbers from the Perryman Groups estimates 12 years ago
and this tepid board which included 7 Dems and & Republicans admits that those estimates were flawed
and current events render the economic impact inconclusive.
Third, not building this particular section, in their conclusions, affected production not at all.
it would be nice if someone around here would read the actual report and not the knuckleheaded
conclusions of Sen Daimes, repeated by every anti Biden site in the world.
12.23.22-KXL-Pipeline-Job-Loss-and-Impacts-on-Consumer-Energy-Costs-001245.pdf (senate.gov)
Now the sections that Obama permitted were very beneficial for Texas and the nation in general as far as
vastly improving the pipeline highways but he got zero press at the time, probably never will.