Trump OKs Keystone pipeline, calling it ‘great day’ for jobs WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a “great day for American jobs” and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate ov...
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress – not the president – the authority to interstate and international commerce. The disputed part of the Keystone XL Pipeline begins in Alberta, Canada and travels through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. ...
For example, all teachers in the Benwood schools were required to reapply for their jobs, and the 100 teachers who were not rehired in the Benwood schools were reassigned to suburban schools. Each principal was asked to take from one to three low-performing tenured teachers into their school...
There are more Democrats that backed a March 2013 non-binding resolution in support of the pipeline. Three of those senators, Chris Coons of Delaware, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Bill Nelson of Florida, aren't planning to support the Landrieu-Hoeven bill. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is...
Intertwined with this are a host of issues and sub-issues related to both oil and natural gas, the future of energy jobs in the state and the viability of the state’s annual operating budget. So far, Gov. Sean Parnell has led the move to ease the tax burden on the oil and gas...
The proposed Dakota Access Pipeline would transport crude oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa and into Illinois. The pipeline is also known as the Bakken Oil Pipeline, named for the oil-rich area in North Dakota. An estimated 7.4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil is believed ...
What is the Dakota Access Pipeline? The 1,172-mile pipeline would stretch from the oil-rich Bakken Formation – a vast underground deposit where Montana and North Dakota meet Canada – southeast into South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. The oil potential in Bakken is massive. An estimated7.4 billi...
“This is a blow to U.S. energy security and a blow to the thousands of good-paying union jobs this project would have supported.” Marty Durbin, president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute, said the decision to terminate the project was understandable given the ...
On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order revoking federal permits for the project, which would bring heavy Canadian crude from the Alberta tar sands through Montana and South Dakota to link up with existing pipelines at Steele City, Neb. The executive order reads, in part...
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to refineries located in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Canada has large reserves of oil locked in oil sands. This oil is considered heavy oil, which requires a different refining process from other types of oil. The production ofheavy oilreleases...