{"id":123030,"date":"2021-02-10T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123030"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:10:57","slug":"14-state-attorneys-say-keystone-cancellation-delivers-crippling-economic-injuries-threaten-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/14-state-attorneys-say-keystone-cancellation-delivers-crippling-economic-injuries-threaten-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"14 State Attorneys Say Keystone Cancellation Delivers \u2018Crippling Economic Injuries,\u2019 Threaten Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F14-state-attorneys-say-keystone-cancellation-delivers-crippling-economic-injuries-threaten-legal-action%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fourteen Republican attorneys general are urging President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> to reconsider\u00a0his decision to cancel a permit for the construction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-keystone-xl\">Keystone XL<\/a> crude oil pipeline, alleging severe economic harm and threatening to take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-legal-action\">legal action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write with alarm regarding your unilateral and rushed decision to revoke the 2019 Presidential Permit\u201d for the pipeline, the officials wrote in a Feb. 9 letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/dojmt.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keystone-LTR-FINAL-FINAL.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">pdf<\/a>), initiated by Montana\u2019s Attorney General Austin Knudsen.<\/p>\n<p>Calling cancellation of the pipeline a decision \u201cto impose crippling economic injuries on states, communities, families, and workers across the country,\u201d the attorneys general urged Biden to reconsider, while warning that they are \u201creviewing available legal options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Knudsen denounced Biden\u2019s decision to pull the permit as \u201ca symbolic act of virtue signaling\u201d that would do little to accomplish its stated objective of\u00a0protecting Americans and the domestic economy from harmful climate impacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real-world costs are devastating,\u201d Knudsen contended. \u201cNationally, your decision will eliminate thousands of well-paying jobs, many of them union jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3672231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CP1332890-4-1200x738-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keystone XL pipeline facilities are seen in Hardisty, Alta., in a file photo. The now-canceled pipeline would have carried oilsands crude from Hardisty to the U.S. Gulf Coast. (The Canadian Press\/Jeff McIntosh)<\/p>\n<p>The State Department determined in 2014 (<a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Record-of-Decision-and-National-Interest-Determination.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that the Keystone XL pipeline project would support a total of 42,100 jobs and create roughly 3,900 direct jobs in Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas over what was expected to be one or two years of construction.<\/p>\n<p>After the pipeline entered service, operations would require around 50 employees in the United States, including 35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors, the State Department found.<\/p>\n<p>While construction of Keystone XL would contribute roughly $3.4 billion to U.S. gross domestic product, according to a National Regulatory Research Institute review of State Department estimates (<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.naruc.org\/pub\/FA8682ED-A60C-C8A3-DEB6-AE725E04D0CC\">pdf<\/a>),\u00a0the pipeline would also offer tax revenues for local and state governments. Property taxes resulting from the project would generate roughly $55.6 million in Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Knudsen argued that axing the pipeline would deprive counties and states of future tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMontana will lose the benefits of future easements and leases, and several local counties will lose their single-biggest property taxpayer. The loss of Keystone XL\u2019s economic activity and tax revenues are especially devastating as five of the six impacted counties are designated high-poverty areas,\u201d Knudsen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In canceling the permit, Biden said the pipeline would do little to benefit the country\u2019s energy security and economy, while approving it would undermine the administration\u2019s efforts to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2015, following an exhaustive review, the Department of State and the President determined that approving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the U.S. national interest,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/executive-order-protecting-public-health-and-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-climate-crisis\/\">Biden wrote<\/a> in his Jan. 20 executive order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat analysis, in addition to concluding that the significance of the proposed pipeline for our energy security and economy is limited, stressed that the United States must prioritize the development of a clean energy economy, which will in turn create good jobs,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe analysis further concluded that approval of the proposed pipeline would undermine U.S. climate leadership by undercutting the credibility and influence of the United States in urging other countries to take ambitious climate action,\u201d he wrote, adding that, \u201cThe world must be put on a sustainable climate pathway to protect Americans and the domestic economy from harmful climate impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knudsen contended in the letter that Biden did not explain \u201chow killing the Keystone XL pipeline project directly advances the goals of \u2018protect[ing] Americans and the domestic economy from harmful climate impacts,&#8217;\u201d nor does his decision \u201cactually cure any of the climate ills\u201d that the president referenced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObservers are thus left with only one reasonable supposition: it is a symbolic act of virtue signaling to special interests and the international community,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Keystone XL pipeline was first proposed in 2008 but reached a snag under the Obama administration. Former President Donald Trump revived the project and was a strong proponent.<\/p>\n<p>Cancellation of the Keystone construction permit has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/halting-keystone-pipeline-is-good-for-russia-nikki-haley_3674064.html\">drawn heavy fire<\/a> from industry groups and Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen Republican attorneys general are urging President Joe Biden to reconsider\u00a0his decision to cancel a permit for the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, alleging severe economic harm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4849,6124,6125,4202,4947,3772],"class_list":["post-123030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-attorneys","tag-cancellation","tag-delivers","tag-economic","tag-keystone","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}