Quote:Former workers on the Keystone XL pipeline remain jobless more than two months after President Joe Biden ordered the project to cease on his first day in office.

Lynn Allen, a former Keystone XL employee, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" that he still has yet to find another job.

"I talked to people nearly every day and there's nothing out there," he said.

"You think about it every minute of every day," he added. "It's just, ‘when will this ever come back around, where we can get a job and prosper my family,’ because right now my family's on hold. It's just — it's a shame."

Retired pipeline worker Guy Williams said "there's quite a few people" out of work near him in Louisiana.

"There's a lot of welders, pipe-laying people that live in my general area, a lot of young guys that I know, some that used to work for me when I was working in the trades. But they don't have anywhere to go."

Allen noted that he’s not interested in the clean job opportunities or infrastructure plans that President Joe Biden has proposed, saying, "I've been welding for 32 years now. That's my trade. That's my calling in life. And none of that fits my plan. I'm a welder. That's what I've been doing. And him wanting to rebuild the middle class, cutting welding jobs, cutting oil and gas, the oil and gas is pretty much the heart of the middle class and the upper class. Oil and gas is what drives the United States and the world and he cuts everything out from us."

Williams added, "our life is wrapped up in the pipeline. That's all we've ever done, that's all we know. I'm a second generation pipeline. My sons used to pipeline before they got out of college and the pipeline is where our life is. You know, on a daily basis you know if we get a call to go to work somewhere, it may be in — I live in Louisiana. It may be in Montana. You've got to hook up to an RV and pull day and night to get there as soon as possible and, you know, then you've got to take a welding test and the results of the welding test will say whether you've got a job or not. Our lives are not as rosy as people think it is."

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I would like to know how many folks voted for Biden* thinking he was going to make life in America better. How do you like Biden*/Harris now that your out of work? Some folks believe anything.

Wasn't Biden supposed to be the "President for ALL Americans" (his words that he repeated many times while campaigning) ?

The thousands that you personally took high paying jobs away from that were working on the pipeline and on the border wall are hurting for a President that supports them and their families. It's jobs that they already had! All you had to do was stay out of the way and do nothing and those people had good jobs! Sad.

Quote:The Biden Administration announced on Monday that it is putting forth a government-wide push to increase offshore wind farms on all three coasts in the United States, citing the move will “create good paying union jobs.”

Press Secretary Jen Psaki spoke about the effort and a fact sheet the administration released at the daily press briefing.

“Today the White House convened leaders from across the administration and is taking coordinated steps to announce a set of bold actions that will catalyze offshore wind energy and create good paying union jobs,” Psaki said.

“The president recognizes that a thriving offshore wind industry will drive new jobs and economic opportunity up and down the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific waters,” Psaki said.

The U.S. Departments of Interior, Energy, Commerce and Transportation will spearhead the effort to “announce new leasing, funding, and development goals to accelerate and deploy offshore wind energy and jobs.”

The fact sheet stated that aside from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy met on Monday with state officials, industry executives, and labor leaders to announce new leasing and funding.

The fact sheet also said that the jobs will come “with the choice to join a union.”

“The [wind] industry will also spawn new supply chains that stretch into America’s heartland, as illustrated by the 10,000 tons of domestic steel that workers in Alabama and West Virginia are supplying to a Texas shipyard where Dominion Energy is building the nation’s first Jones Act compliant wind turbine installation vessel,” the fact sheet stated.

The fact sheet includes claims about the benefits the wind industry will reap, while revealing the cost to taxpayers:

• Establishing a Target of Employing Tens of Thousands of Workers to Deploy 30 Gigawatts (30,000 megawatts) of Offshore Wind by 203

• The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Maritime Administration today is announcing a Notice of Funding Opportunity for port authorities and other applicants to apply for $230 million for port and intermodal infrastructure-related projects through the Port Infrastructure Development Program

• DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) released a fact sheet to facilitate access for the offshore wind industry for $3 billion in funding through LPO’s Title XVII Innovative Energy Loan Guarantee Program.

• The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC), created by the DOE and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), is announcing the award of $8 million to 15 offshore wind research and development projects that were selected through a competitive process.

“President Biden has declared very clearly that when he thinks of climate, he thinks of people and jobs—good-paying, union jobs,” McCarthy said in the fact sheet announcement. “That’s because President Biden believes we have an enormous opportunity in front of us to not only address the threats of climate change, but use it as a chance to create millions of good-paying, union jobs that will fuel America’s economic recovery, rebuild the middle class, and make sure we bounce back from the crises we face.”

“Nowhere is the scale of that opportunity clearer than for offshore wind,” McCarthy said. “This commitment to a new, untapped industry will create pathways to the middle class for people from all backgrounds and communities.”

“For generations, we’ve put off the transition to clean energy and now we’re facing a climate crisis,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said. “It’s a crisis that doesn’t discriminate – every community is facing more extreme weather and the costs associated with that. But not every community has the resources to rebuild, or even get up and relocate when a climate event happens in their backyards.”

“The climate crisis disproportionately impacts communities of color and low-income families,” Haaland said. “As our country faces the interlocking challenges of a global pandemic, economic downturn, racial injustice, and the climate crisis – we have to transition to a brighter future for everyone.”

“Tackling the climate crisis is vital to our nation’s future,” U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said. “The Biden-Harris administration is taking actions that show how creating jobs and addressing climate change can and must go hand in hand.”

This move comes after Biden in his early days in office declared war on the fossil fuel industry, including banning new oil and gas drilling leases on public land.

According to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) fossil fuel is essential to the U.S. energy landscape:

Fossil fuels, or energy sources formed in the Earth’s crust from decayed organic material, including petroleum, natural gas, and coal, continue to account for the largest share of energy production and consumption in the United States. In 2019, 80 percent of domestic energy production was from fossil fuels, and 80 percent of domestic energy consumption originated from fossil fuels.

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(03-29-2021 10:24 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  Wasn't Biden supposed to be the "President for ALL Americans" (his words that he repeated many times while campaigning) ?

The thousands that you personally took high paying jobs away from that were working on the pipeline and on the border wall are hurting for a President that supports them and their families. It's jobs that they already had! All you had to do was stay out of the way and do nothing and those people had good jobs! Sad.

That's the screwed up part of all this. Had he done nothing at all they would have been just fine. It's as if he went out of his way to inflict this damage.

how long does it take to learn how to code? or make a solar panel?

(03-30-2021 06:24 AM)TheOriginalBigApp Wrote:  how long does it take to learn how to code? or make a solar panel?

Speaking as someone who has been writing code most of their adult life and has seen a lot of very intelligent folks move on to other occupations whom it didn't work out for, all I can say is good luck to them with that. You have to have a particular kind of mindset and spatial abilities to enjoy it enough to do it. I've known lots of people that thought it sounded "cool" but were then miserable doing it.