Finish The Pipelines – Just Use Steel You Dig Up Here

ByTU Staff

Originally posted January 25, 2017

President Trump OKs Wilderness Pipelines even as one is almost complete.

Trump signs orders advancing Keystone XL, Dakota Access oil pipelines.

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, another step in his effort to dismantle former president Barack Obama’s environmental legacy.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Trump Signs Executive Orders On Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines.

The presidents executive orders signed on today will push forward the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, opening new fronts in his looming war with environmentalists.

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Another action signed Tuesday calls for U.S. steel to be used if the pipelines are built, though that may mean little in the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is nearly complete. One more order aims to overhaul what Trump called the “horrible permitting process” by slashing environmental regulations.

Source: Huffington Post

Not everyone is happy with these expected orders. “This is not a done deal,” Bill McKibben, co-founder of the environmentalist group 350.org, said in a statement. “The last time around, TransCanada was so confident they literally mowed the strip where they planned to build the pipeline, before people power stopped them. People will mobilize again.”

Dakota Nation protests pipeline. — Dakota protesters demonstrate against the pipeline

Also – Earthjustice, the legal nonprofit representing the Standing Rock Sioux in court, vowed to challenge the actions. “This move is legally questionable, at best,” Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen said in a statement. “[Trump] should brace himself to contend with the laws he is flouting, and the millions of Americans who are opposed to these dangerous and destructive projects. We will see his administration in court.”

The existing pipeline route risks contaminating water used by the tribe and by 17 million Americans downstream, said Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

With bizarre timing, on Monday a pipeline in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan leaked 52,834 gallons of oil on tribal lands, precisely illustrating the fears of protesters on the U.S. side of the border.