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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
https://www.keystonexl.com/project-u...d-keystone-xl/
I posted this before as I thought perhaps TC awarding $1.6 billion in American contracts would make Biden think twice. It clearly didn't. Anyway, there is a material impact on some Americans. Not many in the grand scheme of things, but some.
As for the rest of your post, tough to argue. We are being road blocked going south, west, and east. That's no one's fault but our own ultimately.
Might as well try going north and take advantage of that northwest passage being open longer and longer each year.
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I don't think that argument really works, though. By material impact on Americans, I meant more that it's not like their fighter jets are going to run out fuel halfway to bombing some poor people somewhere. As it stands now, whether Keystone is there or not, American life will go on just the same.
Sure there will be onesie/twosie jobs lost here and there, particularly while it is being built, but those would be offset somewhat by people employed by rail and in other O&G jobs in the States. In the scheme of how big the size of the USA is and the limited number of jobs this would create (particularly when you look at the limited number of long-term permanent positions that would be required to run and maintain the pipe), it really isn't material to the States that this doesn't proceed.
It seems to be a modern Conservative trait to lack the ability to empathize with others. Why is Kenney so shocked at this? Biden has been given a huge mandate by the American people. It would be so dumb for him to burn his limited political capital on paving the way for Albertans to get their oil to market. He needs to be prioritizing preventing a civil war down there, fighting the most insane pandemic anybody alive today has ever seen, and repairing America's reputation around the world. To think it makes sense to burn bridges he'll need to cross on a pipeline for private interests in a foreign country is just so naïve and weird. From Biden's perspective, it would be idiotic to push this, but it's truly idiotic that Kenney can't put himself in Biden's shoes and see that it is the most reasonable move for Biden to make.
All that said, I 100% wish Keystone was happening. My business makes stuff for O&G and pipelines. The slowdown and now this news is a big hit for me, but I'm not so arrogant that I think my position is the only one (unlike Kenney). I can at least accept Biden's decision because I can see that is best for him. I also know this was the inevitable result. I mean, you could even argue Kenney must have known as well because wasn't this what the war room was for - to educate people and fight back on the misinformation and disinformation surrounding Alberta oil? Well, they did a piss poor job on that, but the time to fight this outcome was years ago, not with a pout-fest on live TV the day of.
If we want Alberta oil flowing more freely, we're going to have to be way more tactical in how we get our message out there. Like I'm talking paid protesters at ports where tankers arrive and crap like that. Crying like a baby that you were right all along on TV (even though the results were all wrong) will leave us further in the dust.