Trump signs executive actions to advance Keystone, Dakota Access pipelines

[Revmitchell]

President Donald Trump signed executive actions on Tuesday to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, setting off a clash with Democrats and environmental activists who vehemently oppose the projects.

Keystone XL has been at the center of one of the largest opposition campaigns in the history of the environmental movement, with activists conducting a years-long campaign to kill the project. Former President Barack Obama rejected Keystone in 2015 after a lengthy analysis of the pipeline.


During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to green-light Keystone XL, which if completed would carry Canadian oil sands crude from Alberta to Texas.

Trump has also said that he wants the U.S. government to get 25 percent of Keystone's profits. Negotiating that type of unusual deal with Keystone developer TransCanada and the Canadian government would likely prove difficult.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...vance-keystone-dakota-access-pipelines-234095

 

[Rolfe]

This is a good thing.

 

[carpro]

This is what "America first" means.

 

[Deacon]

Trump is known as a negotiator... that's what his book was all about....how to negotiate.

As president he won't turn his back on what he does best.

We will read the wild claims he makes, his wild eyed dreams. The press will go crazy calling him crazy.

...AND THEN... after the negotiations, he'll get what he really wanted 5 to 10% of the deal.

The real story here is that Trump has hoodwinked the liberal press into gabbering about his "false" claim of a rigged election rather than the Keystone Pipeline or the Senate confirmations.

BTW...didn't the press claim that the election was rigged last week???

Rob

 

[carpro]

BTW...didn't the press claim that the election was rigged last week???

Rob

I believe so. Their claim that the Russians threw the election to Trump is just as unproven as Trump's. Trump's is far more likely to be true.