{"id":1887302,"date":"2023-03-15T05:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-senator-jon-tester-hobnobs-with-green-energy-activist-who-helped-kill-keystone-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T09:29:00","slug":"montana-senator-jon-tester-hobnobs-with-green-energy-activist-who-helped-kill-keystone-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-senator-jon-tester-hobnobs-with-green-energy-activist-who-helped-kill-keystone-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Senator Jon Tester Hobnobs With Green Energy Activist Who Helped Kill Keystone Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fmontana-senator-jon-tester-hobnobs-with-green-energy-activist-who-helped-kill-keystone-pipeline%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=1887302&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-->\n<div>\n<h2>Tester stated that the pipeline would have provided &#8216;energy independence&#8217; and &#8216;big benefits&#8217; for the state.<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> Jon Tester (Getty Images).\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Montana senator Jon Tester mourned the loss of Keystone XL and the thousands of rural jobs it would have brought, held a Silicon Valley fundraiser, attended by a green activist who helped end the pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Tester&#8217;s Monday night Silicon Valley soir\u00e9e\u2014which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyschleifer\/status\/1635297343921696769\"><span>Cost<\/span><\/a><span> up to $6,600 to attend\u2014counted Natural Resources Defense Council board member Nicole Lederer as a sponsor. The council <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/court-battles\/keystone-xl-pipeline\"><span>Multiple times sued<\/span><\/a><span> Trump&#8217;s administration delayed the Keystone Pipeline Project until President Joe Biden cancelled it within days of his election in January 2021. The success of the council was remarkable &#8220;takedown&#8221; Keystone is its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/stories\/what-keystone-pipeline\"><span>Website<\/span><\/a><span> says, &#8220;will go down as one of this generation&#8217;s most monumental environmental victories.&#8221; Lederer personally sabotaged the project and wrote in a <\/span><i><span>Huffington Post<\/span><\/i><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/dont-believe-the-fantasy_b_1204187\">Column<\/a> Keystone &#8220;is against the best interest of our country&#8221; This would be a great idea. &#8220;very few jobs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tester&#8217;s willingness of Lederer to have a drink with him contradicts the Democrat\u2019s public support for the pipeline. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montanarightnow.com\/great-falls\/hundreds-of-montana-jobs-could-be-lost-if-keystone-xl-pipeline-permit-suspension-stays\/article_39d1a4cc-654a-11eb-b0e2-177cb50ec07c.html\"><span>There are hundreds of construction jobs<\/span><\/a><span> in Big Sky Country\u2014jobs that Tester himself <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tester.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/pr-8367\/\"><span><\/span><\/a><span> &#8220;would have yielded big benefits for our state.&#8221; Tester promised to &#8220;keep fighting to create jobs in rural Montana&#8221; After the pipeline was shut down, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was formed. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/rockies\"><span>Openly proclaims<\/span><\/a><span> Its work to stop oil and gas extraction from Montana and other northern states is a major part of its mission. This industry <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/montanapetroleum.org\/about-us\/economic-impact\/\"><span>Support<\/span><\/a><span> According to the Montana Petroleum Association there are over 29,000 Montana jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Tester campaign didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment. Lederer is based in Palo Alto (Calif.) and serves as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/people\/nicole-lederer\/\"><span>chair<\/span><\/a><span> An environmental non-profit that is a Natural Resources Defense Council Partner. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?committee_id=C00412304&#038;committee_id=C00547679&#038;contributor_name=Nicole+Lederer\"><span>Contributed<\/span><\/a><span> Campaign finance records show that Tester&#8217;s campaign received more than $11,000 before the Monday fundraiser. Lederer&#8217;s non-profit claimed it was not involved in the fundraiser &#8220;in any way, shape, or form&#8221; And did not comment further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lederer wasn&#8217;t the only one who was controversially present at the Palo Alto event. Silicon Valley Bank&#8217;s legal team partners Lederer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/after-bank-bailout-tester-raises-money-from-partner-of-silicon-valley-banks-law-firm\/\">Also sponsored<\/a> The fundraiser was held just three days following the bank&#8217;s collapse, the second-largest in American history.<\/span><span>. Senator Banking Committee member Tester has been criticized by liberals for voting for a 2018 bill that would have reduced regulations for mid-sized banks such as Silicon Valley Bank. The vote has not been addressed by Tester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tester&#8217;s Silicon Valley fundraiser is also held days after the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/montana-senator-jon-testers-restaurant-bills-dont-match-his-everyman-image\/\"><span>Find it<\/span><\/a><span> That the Democrat has spent <\/span><span>More than a million dollars<\/span><span> At swanky restaurants, such as one Washington, D.C. establishment that boasts its &#8220;ambiance and luxury&#8221; Status as a meeting spot &#8220;senators, congressmen, celebrities, and powerbrokers.&#8221; Tester, who calls himself a &#8220;tireless defender of rural America,&#8221; He insisted that he preferred to eat meat from Montana&#8217;s farm rather than go out for dinner in 2012. &#8220;At the end of the long day, I am happier not going out [to eat],&#8221; Tester stated. &#8220;Taking meat with us is just something that we do. We like our own meat.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Who is Tester? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/this-crucial-senate-target-just-got-harder-for-republicans-to-flip-in-2024\/\"><span>launched<\/span><\/a><span> As Senate Republicans try to secure a majority in the upper house, they are considering his 2024 reelection bid as a top target. The party did well in the 2020 Montana statewide races, with Republicans Steve Daines (Republican) and Greg Gianforte winning double-digit victories in their respective campaigns for governor and senator.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/montana-senator-jon-tester-hobnobs-with-green-energy-activist-who-helped-kill-keystone-pipeline\/\">Montana Senator Jon Tester Hobnobs with Green Energy Activist Who Helped Kill Keystone Pipeline<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tester said pipeline would have ensured &#8216;energy independence,&#8217; created &#8216;big benefits for our state&#8217; Jon Tester (Getty Images) Montana senator Jon Tester, who mourned the death of the Keystone XL pipeline and the hundreds of rural jobs it would have created, held a big-ticket Silicon Valley fundraiser with a green energy activist who helped kill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1891670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[544],"tags":[5327,4486,5812,5954,21726,16480,4947,3759,8605,4950,4012,4941],"class_list":["post-1887302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-activist","tag-energy","tag-green","tag-helped","tag-hobnobs","tag-jon","tag-keystone","tag-kill","tag-montana","tag-pipeline","tag-senator","tag-tester"],"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\/1887302","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}