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stanleybmanly's avatar

Is the Keystone pipeline dead for good?

Asked by stanleybmanly (24153points) May 3rd, 2021

Who took a beating? What about the pipeline and infrastructure already installed?

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elbanditoroso's avatar

In politics, nothing is ever truly dead. But this one is as close to dead as it can be.

Look at it this way, the construction workers and the pipeline manufacturers got paid, whether or not the pipe ever carried a drop of oil. The losers are the oil companies that put money into the project.

Boo hoo.

Yellowdog's avatar

Eleven thousand workers lost their jobs, and about five or six times that many others who work in industries and towns related to the pipeline.

The Green New Deal is a war on the Energy industry—we’ll all be paying higher and higher escalating prices for gasoline and oil and electricity in the years ahead, which additionally will be heavily taxed.

elbanditoroso's avatar

@Yellowdog get real. The pipeline was controversial and questionable 10 years before the Green new Deal. The only reason it got as far as it did was because someone paid off the Trumpies.

And what good is it living in a town next to the pipeline if your air and water are polluted and unusable.

Go back to sleep, @Yellowdog

Dutchess_III's avatar

We need to find alternate sources of energy. Fossil fuels won’t last forever.

Yellowdog's avatar

Nobody disputes that, @Dutchess_III But while we are finding alternatives, natural gas and oil and coal work. They will be in abundance for centuries to come, and we are always finding ways to make them less carbon polluting. They can be used while / until we find better ways, which we are always doing.

Dutchess_III's avatar

According to this, and other articles, we’ll run out in 2060.
Where did you get the idea they’d last for centuries? Common sense tells you they won’t.

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