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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Climate ChangeThis bill would green light the rest of the construction for the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline.
Part of this authorization for construction — on a pipeline that would cross six states: Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas — also means approving the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement performed for the pipeline in January 2014. This would mean that the pipeline plans would not face any more environmental impact checks.
bill Progress
- Not enactedThe President has not signed this bill
- The senate has not voted
- The house Passed January 9th, 2015Roll Call Vote 266 Yea / 153 Nay
- house Committees
House Committee on Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Energy and CommerceHouse Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureIntroducedJanuary 6th, 2015
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What is it?
Impact
People and wild organisms living around the Keystone XL Pipeline route, people in the oil and gas industry in the surrounding areas, Mary Landrieu's career.
Cost
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Of Note:
Sponsoring Rep. Bill Cassidy's H.R. 5682 is rivaling an almost identical bill introduced in the Senate by Sen. Mary Landrieu. They are both Louisiana lawmakers who at the time of this bill's introduction were heading into a run off election in early December 2014.In terms of the construction of the actual pipeline, the stakes in this fight are high for both sides. Environmentalists worry that approval of the project will effectively endorse the continued extraction of bitumen (otherwise known as oil sands or tar sands) in Canada, which has devastated the local environment and contributed to global warming. For TransCanada, which controls the world’s only landlocked oil reserve, the Keystone XL pipeline is their best bet for reaching an international market. For many members of Congress, the pipeline represents a potential source of jobs and income for their constituents, as well as a source of energy security.
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AKA
Keystone XL Pipeline Act
Official Title
To approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
"The Keystone XL pipeline is a bad deal for the United States and an even worse deal for the future of our children, our environment and our economy. The facts are clear: the Keystone XL pipeline will only create 35 permanent jobs while dumping millions of tons of carbon pollution into the air and threatening waterways and communities across the Midwest." Read more at: https://nextgenclimate.org/press/statement-from-tom-steyer-on-senate-keystone-xl-vote/
It's simply not worth the environmental hazard that this pipeline will bring along with it. The 35 permanent jobs and the extreme amount of emissions is not worth the financial gain out of this pipeline. Future generations will ask our generation what were we thinking if we enacted this pipeline. Climate change leads to worse weather conditions (bigger droughts, etc.) and more horrific disasters, and it's simply NOT WORTH IT. LISTEN TO THE SCIENTISTS.
Keystone will not change create a significant amount of sustainable jobs.
We can't sacrifice the wellbeing of the earth to create jobs in the short term.
It's a shortsighted solution to a temporary problem. We need more work on energy solutions that don't destroy the environment.
Again, this is sacred land. Greed should not be the driving force in this country. It doesn't matter how many jobs we have if we are all dying from poisoning our water and land.
First, no be of the oil from Canada will remain in the US. All oil transported by the Keystone pipeline is for export to other countries. Second, the number of jobs to be created by this project have been grossly exaggerated. This is a bad and dangerous project that only benefits the Koch brothers.
This is a threat to our public health and a contributor to climate change. We must prioritize people, not polluters. http://lwv.org/tags/keystone-xl-pipeline
Let's spend our time and money on renewable energy and upgrading our crumbling infrastructure please.
This is indigenous land and we would be breaking treaties it is illegal and wrong.
Not until they come up with better and more strict environmentally conscious ground rules
The pipeline funds should be redirected towards both R&D and implementation of clean energy generators. Jobs would be created for the construction and maintenance of such things as wind turbines and solar panels.
Fell very strongly about the sovereignty of native lands.... please please please divert and / or stop the DAPL.... Have written before but feel so committed to this , I needed to say this again after Trumps signing yesterday
Come on you guys. It's not that complicated to be good. Protect the environment. Support clean energy to create jobs. Protect women's reproductive rights. Don't jail potheads. Try to stay out of wars. Be civil and decent unlike our current scary president. Anyway I'm not voting for anyone who can't just do these few simple things and now thanks to this ap it's easy to watch the voting record of our public servants
I don't like the pipeline but it's better than all the crude oil trains. We obviously need to move faster to get off oil.
It it time to move beyond our addiction to fossil fuels to develop renewable energies. Water is a more vital resource which we cannot afford to squander.
Temporary oil jobs aren't what this country needs. We need to stop destroying our environment.
This is a gigantic infringement on indigenous rights and lands, huge potential for environmental destruction, and is just a push to build oil ($$$$) infrastructure to make us depend on oil companies, instead of solar or wind energy.