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Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline

Jack Hays said:
And again, I don't care.
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While you don't, Trump apparently thought enough of the idea to tell America they would use American made steel... which proved to be false.

So we know he cares and apparently he feels other Americans do also.
 
Jack Hays said:
I never cared about that.
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Actually JH, this point many are running with has no relationship with reality.

In doing some research on the issue, I came across an article in Popular Mechanics which contains detail I haven't seen in most articles.

This is what they state in the article.

How Will the Keystone XL Pipeline Be Built?

TransCanada plans to purchase the pipe itself from steel mills in Arkansas and Saskatchewan, with about 40 percent of the steel originating from Canada, 50 percent from the United States, and 10 percent from China and South Korea.​

This article was written in 2013, so things may have changed. Also, why would any contractor stockpile 100's of miles of pipeline for a project that was killed in 2015?

I've asked, and the most vociferous posters here can't come up with a single bit of data that shows every inch of the pipeline was sourced outside the United States.

I'm thinking there is more bark to their claims than bite.
 
upsideguy said:
Partisan vindictiveness??? Wow, you have an active imagine. How to you get that?

I simply said this thing is utter silliness. It has negligible economy impact, but people have sold it for years as if it is essential for our economy. Trump now wants to make a big deal out of it; but it is silly. It has the economic impact on par with building a downtown Westin hotel; not NO impact, just very little.

I have consistently argued that for years on this board (even using that example). this is even worth my time talking about, as it is a non-event, yet we have 193 posts on this board discussing the impact of building a hotel in downtown Minneapolis..... Build the hotel, who cares? But don't make a big deal about it.

OK... "partisanship": Trump over hypes the little stuff, because he can't handle the big stuff with any degree of competency and he knows it.
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Nobody has sold it as "essential for the economy". Jobs are good, people working is good. Period, end of story. A contract, or subcontract on a project such as this could greatly benefit the companies involved for the long term. But you already knew that. Or did you? :shrug:
 
TheGoverness said:
Eggs-actly. People are like "this'll create more jerbs!" but once the pipeline is finished, the majority of those jobs will go *poof*.
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Construction jobs at that particular job-site tend to go "poof" once the job is finished. Then they go on and build or repair something else. Novel concept isn't it?

What do they teach you in schrool? Go to university and get a government job.. no practical life experiences... so you can **** everything up... like Obama?

Of course, with the perverted permitting process, those "shovel ready" jobs under Obama went "poof"... what did that economic illiterate say... "shovel ready isn't so shovel ready"?

Construction jobs would be ample with sane enviro regulations, and less bureaucracy. Believe me... I know it first hand.
 
haymarket said:
While you don't, Trump apparently thought enough of the idea to tell America they would use American made steel... which proved to be false.

So we know he cares and apparently he feels other Americans do also.
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Yes, and . . . ?
 
Jack Hays said:
Yes, and . . . ?
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I guess the democrat plan was to destroy the existing bought and paid for supplies and THEN buy American steel.

Typical democrat efficiency at work.
 
zimmer said:
Construction jobs at that particular job-site tend to go "poof" once the job is finished. Then they go on and build or repair something else. Novel concept isn't it?

What do they teach you in schrool? Go to university and get a government job.. no practical life experiences... so you can **** everything up... like Obama?

Of course, with the perverted permitting process, those "shovel ready" jobs under Obama went "poof"... what did that economic illiterate say... "shovel ready isn't so shovel ready"?

Construction jobs would be ample with sane enviro regulations, and less bureaucracy. Believe me... I know it first hand.
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Well, you know, Obama's infrastructure bills would have been like paying workers digging holes and filling them back in. None of that would be temporary [emoji14]

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TransCanada shuts down Keystone after oil seeps to surface | National Observer

Alberta-based TransCanada Corp has shut down its Keystone pipeline after crews spotted oil near a pump station in South Dakota, the company said in a statement on Monday.

The company, Canada's second largest pipeline operator, said the "potential incident" was first reported on Saturday afternoon.

"TransCanada immediately began the process to shut down the pipeline, activate its emergency response procedures and dispatch ground crews to assess the situation," said the company in a statement. "Crews initially found visible signs of oil on a small surface area."

News of the oil seeping to the surface could be inconvenient for TransCanada, which is now trying to convince communities across Canada to accept its proposal for a gigantic new pipeline infrastructure project — the 4,600-kilometre Energy East pipeline.
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