During his tenure in office, Barack Obama vehemently opposed both expanding offshore oil drilling and the construction of oil pipelines that would create thousands of good-paying American jobs.
Well, now that Donald Trump is officially the 45th President of the United States, things are about to change. President Trump is set to sign orders officially approving the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Pipeline, after much resistance from the left and their radical environmental allies.
So: @realDonaldTrump is set to advance Keystone & Dakota pipelines today, per @PeterAlexander. Executive order to be signed at 11AM.
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) January 24, 2017
Per @johnrobertsFox “Sources confirm Pres Trump will sign executive orders to move forward with the Keystone XL and Dakota access pipelines”
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) January 24, 2017
From Bloomberg:
President Donald Trump intends to take action today to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, according to a person familiar with the matter.
TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline was rejected under former President Barack Obama, and Energy Transfer Partners LP’s $3.8 billion Dakota Access project was stalled when the Obama administration halted work on in on land near Lake Oahe in North Dakota amid protests by Native American groups.
The moves, taken on Trump’s fourth full day in office, illustrate his plan to fulfill his campaign pledge to give the oil industry more freedom to expand infrastructure, create jobs and ease transportation bottlenecks.
For years, Barack Obama and his State Department went back and forth over whether to allow Keystone and other pipelines to go forward with construction, before eventually blocking the project, appeasing the environmental lobby over the American economy.
During the campaign, President Trump spoke out in favor of the two pipelines, as well as unleashing America’s energy potential, rather than relying on Middle East oil. Trump’s action on Tuesday should be seen by many in America’s energy sector as a positive sign that the president is committed to investing in American infrastructure and energy.
Do you support President Trump’s decision to approve the Keystone and Dakota pipelines? Share your thoughts below!
Obama was against the Dakota Access pipeline because he cares about our environment and he respects the treaties made with the Native Americans. If you truly believe that God created this incredible world then why are you so bent on destroying it? You cannot call yourself a Christian and hate at the same time…don’t you get it that Jesus loved everyone regardless of their color or faith? When you say that we have oil, coal, etc…to last many years….maybe forever….who do you think you’re kidding? Are you trying to convince yourself of that lie in order to alleviate any guilt you might have? If you really care about future generations then you truly need to check your FACTS! The rate at which we are presently destroying our earth is unprecedented….simply put, never before has the use of fossil fuels polluted our atmosphere as they have in the last 40 to 50 years. Our oceans are warming – FACT! Our ice caps are melting – FACT! And YES We, meaning all of us, are to blame because of our greed and need for consumption. If you are truly a Christian then you would care about this planet, you would care about other people and not just yourself, and you would love, not hate others because they’re not exactly like YOU!
We have oil, coal and natural gas that will last many years, maybe forever. This will create many jobs and let America to quit buying oil from the middle East. Obama was against using American oil because of his Muslim brothers who sell oil in the middle East. Was these Washington sore losers in on this with Obama?
Good move and a great biz op for us, if we don’t make use of this oil supply it can be sold on the market to finance our own infrastructure and create our energy independence to sustain our economic growth……
This is saddening. US oil moguls have had oil “running out their ears” since the completion of the Alaska pipeline. If processing oily sands of Canada were profitable, Canadian oil moguls would have scarfed them up long ago. Piping them to the Gulf of Mexico threatens the major aquifer of the central US, insults property owners from Canada to Houston, and will ultimately require a “bail out” such as the alias, BHObama paid to Wall Street.
Years ago, reverend Lindsey Williams provided insider details of the energy-oil non-crisis. Details at this link: http://reformation.org/energy-non-crisis.html