Quote:Joe Biden’s decision to eliminate the Keystone XL Pipeline is killing jobs and hurting Americans. Unions that endorsed Biden are already speaking out against the decision.
So are the workers who are losing their jobs.
Teny Sahakian reports at FOX News:
Laid-off Keystone XL worker says decision to cancel pipeline ‘is going to hurt a lot of people’
In his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to halt the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was meant to transport Canadian crude oil to the U.S., citing the climate-change crisis as the reason.
The move swiftly eliminated the estimated 11,000 U.S. jobs – including 8,000 union jobs – the project would have sustained in 2021.
Neal Crabtree, a welding foreman who began working on pipeline construction as an apprentice in 1997, was dismayed when he heard the news.
“This is not a time to be making political statements. We need to be finding ways to put more Americans back to work, not the other way around,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
A member of Pipeliners Local Union 798, one of four unions whose members will be left without work due to the pipeline’s cancellation, the 46-year-old welder from Arkansas was among the first to be laid off following the order. At the time the cross-border permits for the pipeline were rescinded, he and his team were in Nebraska working on a pump station for Keystone XL.
See Mr. Crabtree’s video below:
Here’s a video from a manager on the Keystone XL Pipeline:
Here’s one more. Strong language warning:
The left and the media are already rushing to Biden’s defense and downplaying the loss of jobs. Check out the ruling from ‘Politifact’ below, via WRAL News:
PolitiFact ruling
A Facebook post says that Biden’s executive order revoking the Keystone XL pipeline “is destroying 11,000 jobs.”
That number is an estimate, and the claim lacks context about the longevity of Keystone jobs.
TC Energy said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden’s executive order. In October, the company said it expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans in 2021 and generate more than $1.6 in gross wages.
But both TC Energy and the State Department have said the majority of those jobs would be temporary. A 2014 report found that the company would need only 50 employees to maintain the Keystone XL pipeline once it’s finished, 35 of them permanent.
Temporary jobs are still jobs. But this post could leave the wrong impression without full context. We rate it Half True.
Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline was a dumb and destructive idea. It is killing jobs and will threaten our energy independence. No amount of media spin will change this.
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I feel their pain.
Politically, there is quite honestly nothing to do in response, except to try and get fewer people to vote D., and more people to vote R.
Joe says these pipeline workers as well as the coal miners will all be retrained to do better paying jobs in tech that are needed in the 21st century. I'm sure these guys will all be trained up "writing code" in a matter of months.
(01-27-2021 04:32 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]I feel their pain.
Politically, there is quite honestly nothing to do in response, except to try and get fewer people to vote D., and more people to vote R.
If Trump were to start a new political party I was thinking today that a good name for it would be the
Middle Class Party. I think that would resonate among the majority of Americans - the Middle Class - and appear to be something that they would naturally gravitate towards.
John Don’tCarey, the climate czar, whatever that is, says they made poor decisions and their jobs were on the way out anyway. More of the democrats concern for the little guy on display.
If coding doesn't work out they can always make solar panels
I wonder how many of them losing their jobs voted for The senile one....
(01-27-2021 08:06 PM)Eldonabe Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder how many of them losing their jobs voted for The senile one....
The employees didn't vote for him, but you can damn well bet their money (dues) went to his campaign. It's 2021. There is no need for unions.
I'm still trying to figure out how the skills of driving a D9 or backhoe translate into building solar panels.
(01-28-2021 07:22 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm still trying to figure out how the skills of driving a D9 or backhoe translate into building solar panels.
To elitists they are just " workers". Just tell them what to do and they do it. For people in power with soft hands and no skills that's how it is.
(01-27-2021 08:06 PM)Eldonabe Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder how many of them losing their jobs voted for The senile one....
Union folk have voted as bloc for Democrats since WWII, that worm has turned a bit in the last decade or so. But even if this is the residual effect, they're still they're getting what they voted for.
This goes for black folk too IMHO.
Unions vote for their leadership & if they really wanted to, they'd change it. I don't feel all that sorry for them as a lot (individually I do). They've allowed this to foment, this is the result.
(01-28-2021 07:22 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm still trying to figure out how the skills of driving a D9 or backhoe translate into building solar panels.
Here is the kicker.... these jobs that just got axed are immediate.
Listening to Joe's speech yesterday, he makes it sound like they get to walk out the door of their former employer and go next door to start their new one.
It will be years before those "new jobs" actually become a reality. What happens to all those people while they are waiting for the jobs to become available? What happens when those jobs do become available but the location of them is nowhere near where they live and (used) to work?
I bet you cash money that most of those new grunt jobs reappear in areas where our friends from the south (crossing the border illegally) are populating.
I have a high school buddy who works on offshore rigs. He was let go this week.
It's a lot more reaching that Keystone XL. No new federal land leases. No new offshore leases. It's basically a shutdown of most new drilling.
(01-27-2021 04:32 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]I feel their pain.
Politically, there is quite honestly nothing to do in response, except to try and get fewer people to vote D., and more people to vote R.
Or maybe for more people to vote P in 2022.
Warren Buffet donated $58 million to Biden's* campaign
Warren Buffet owns the railroad that transports all that oil
Warren Buffet will lose billions in transport fees if that pipeline is completed
Joe Biden* cancelled the pipeline on his first day
Environmental issue or money issue?
(01-28-2021 07:22 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm still trying to figure out how the skills of driving a D9 or backhoe translate into building solar panels.
Id pay good money to see one of those d9 or backhoe operators ***** slap Kerry or Biden to the ground.... albeit Kerry or Biden would have to have to balls to say this nonsense to their face.
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(01-28-2021 04:03 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]Warren Buffet donated $58 million to Biden's* campaign
Warren Buffet owns the railroad that transports all that oil
Warren Buffet will lose billions in transport fees if that pipeline is completed
Joe Biden* cancelled the pipeline on his first day
Environmental issue or money issue?
Both. Especially if you have seen the amount of damage an oil train derailment can do.
(01-27-2021 04:32 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]I feel their pain.
Politically, there is quite honestly nothing to do in response, except to try and get fewer people to vote D., and more people to vote R.
Trump had no business to even signed the the Executive Order in the first place since the courts by both Democrat and Republican judges ruled against the company that wants the Keystone Pipeline. There was no job in the first place since it is still tied up in the courts.
oh please. The Keystone Pipeline is COMPLETE and has been for a few years. Keystone XL is expansion of the pipeline over native American land and a very important aquifer. It should be blocked, the jobs lost are mostly temporary anyway, Trump didn't have the authority to issue the permits, and we already get PLENTY of oil from Alberta as it is.
the hand-wringing is just GOP talking points.