{"id":933566,"date":"2021-10-28T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933566"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:58:52","slug":"fired-keystone-pipeline-worker-my-crisis-is-not-climate-but-putting-food-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fired-keystone-pipeline-worker-my-crisis-is-not-climate-but-putting-food-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Keystone Pipeline Worker: My Crisis Is Not Climate but Putting Food on the Table"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffired-keystone-pipeline-worker-my-crisis-is-not-climate-but-putting-food-on-the-table%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=933566&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Keystone-XL-pipeline-ap.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and its subcommittee on the environment held a hearing on Thursday to grill the CEOs of top U.S. fossil fuel companies, calling it a historic event, to call out the businesses for lying to the American people about the existential threat of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But the one Republican witness on the panel perhaps best summed up what is at stake when it comes to the left\u2019s efforts to make climate change more important than American workers and the nation\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Neal Crabtree is a welder who has spent his career working on oil and gas pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely not something that I\u2019m proud of, but I may have been the first casualty of the Build Back Better plan,\u201d Crabtree said. \u201cThree hours after President Biden\u2019s inauguration, I lost my job on the construction of the Keystone pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo sum this up, the administration is having a direct negative impact on energy prices in this country,\u201d Crabtree said. \u201cThey\u2019re having an impact on my ability to find work right now.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy crisis right now isn\u2019t the climate,\u201d Crabtree said. \u201cMy crisis is the mortgage payments I have due every month. It\u2019s the food I need to put on my table and it\u2019s the healthcare I need to provide to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd instead of demonizing the CEOs and presidents that are here today, I would like to thank them for the opportunities they\u2019ve provided me and my family and my union to work and these past few decades,\u201d Crabtree said.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, held strategically as President Joe Biden and most of his cabinet are traveling to Glasgow, Scotland, for a United Nations global warming summit, was designed to put fossil fuel producers on the hot seat for denying climate change is real.<\/p>\n<p>Chairwoman of the Committee Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/committee-analysis-of-fossil-fuel-industry-s-lobbying-reveals-public-praise-for\">said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>Today\u2019s staff memo shows Big Oil\u2019s campaign to \u2018greenwash\u2019 their role in the climate crisis in action. These oil companies pay lip service to climate reforms, but behind the scenes they spend far more time lobbying to preserve their lucrative tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>At today\u2019s Committee hearing, we will demand accountability from Big Oil for their role in fueling the climate crisis and deceiving the public, and we will urge the industry to finally take meaningful action to rein in emissions from fossil fuels before it is too late.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While defending the importance of fossil fuel for the role it plays in almost every aspect of America\u2019s lifestyle, prosperity, and national security, CEOs from ExxonMobile, Shell Oil Company, Chevron Corporation, and BP America all claimed to believe in climate change and vowed to help fight it.<\/p>\n<p>It was Republicans on the committee who, like Crabtree, spoke out on behalf of fossil fuel producers. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), ranking member on the subcommittee on the environment, said at the hearing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Democrats have contrived yet another hearing to demonize the oil and gas industry. The folks represented before us today run organizations that are providing good paying jobs and secure, affordable, and clean energy for all Americans \u2014 something this administration is attempting to dismantle instead of conducting actual oversight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats are focused on destroying an industry and the jobs it provides to distract us from the fact that they have no plan to recoup our energy workforce or energy independence,\u201d Norman said.<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree has still not found a job since he lost his work on the Keystone XL pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Penny Starr on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i> or send news tips to pstarr@breitbart.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and its subcommittee on the environment held a hearing on Thursday to grill the CEOs of top U.S. fossil fuel companies, calling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933566","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}