President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
That’s according to a person with knowledge of the action. The president is scheduled to sign orders at the White House late Tuesday morning.
Former President Barack Obama killed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in late 2015, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal that was a centerpiece of his environmental legacy. The pipeline would run from Canada to U.S. refineries in the Gulf Coast. The U.S. government needed to approve the pipeline because it crossed the border.
The Army decided last year to explore alternate routes for the Dakota pipeline after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters said the pipeline threatened drinking water and Native American cultural sites.
The person with knowledge of the decisions insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to confirm the moves ahead of a formal announcement.
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Maybe he is a lot like President Jackson after all. Fuck him running roughshod over the rights of our Native American brothers and sisters. Rick Perry is on the board of that pipeline too btw.
Hmm, I might need to unblock a couple of my Trumper cousins on Facebook. They had all been up in arms about what a “betrayal” Republican support for Keystone XL was (despite support for it being a GOP party platform plank) back before Obama killed it. Could be fun to see them howling about Trump less than a week in.
On a separate note, I seem to remember hearing that Trump had some investment in the Dakota pipeline does anyone else remember hearing anything about that?
Time for some lawsuits!
A friend of mine on Facebook who is Native American constantly posts “I stand with Standing Rock” and other anti Dakota Access pipeline statuses… and also Trumpist stupidity and “blue lives matter” crap…
I wonder how he’ll handle this totally foreseeable “betrayal”.