Jim Hoft "The Keystone Pipeline project was expected to create
tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the oil industry. The project itself would create
20,000 construction jobs. And the pipeline would bring oil from Canada and
North Dakota to refineries in the United States.
"The proposed project would have extended
from Alberta, Canada to Illinois, transporting approximately 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Estimated cost is $1.7 billion.
"But Obama
rejected the plan in 2011 and
2014.
"Democrats are beholden to the radical green movement – the poor and middle class be damned.
"On Tuesday
Democrats voted down the Keystone Pipeline in the US Senate.
The National Journal reported:
Mary Landrieu begged her fellow Democrats to back legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, looking for a lifeline in her long-shot bid to keep her Senate seat. But on Tuesday night, she fell one vote short.
The Senate rejected an attempt to get cloture on the measure, with 41 senators (all Democrats or independents) voting to stall the measure.
And here is one of those Democrats
Barbara Boxer: Keystone XL Stands For 'Extra Lethal'
"On Tuesday, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) took to the Senate floor urging her Democratic colleagues to vote against approving the Keystone XL pipeline, calling it an environmental hazard.
“ 'What does XL stand for? To me it stands for extra lethal, not extra large, but extra lethal,” Boxer said. “This is a serious environmental hazard.'”...
Liberal ‘hell no’ caucus rises "The defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline in the Senate marked a major show of muscle for next year’s new hell-no caucus: liberals.
"Liberal Senate Democrats united to block the controversial project, even though their imperiled Democratic colleague Mary Landrieu of Louisiana begged them not to at a Democratic Caucus lunch on Tuesday afternoon."
...
"Even as they vow to fight Republicans at every turn on issues that fundamentally divide liberals and conservatives, left-leaning Democrats insist that they will not do so seeking retaliation against a Republican minority that stymied their economic, environmental and social priorities for so long with filibusters and delay. Those days, they insist, are gone — leaving liberals to somehow find a balance between fighting for their convictions and not drawing the same charges of obstruction that have dominated Democratic messaging for years."
