Keystone Xl Pipeline : America's Energy

The Keystone XL is a controversial oil pipeline extension that would travel from Alberta, Canada, to the United States Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL should not be built because of the damage it would cause to the environment. The oil would be found within tar sands that contain bitumen. The process of extracting the crude oil uses a lot of energy and causes a large amount of greenhouse gases. Many citizens, in Canada and the United States, are outraged because it can be detrimental to the surrounding land and wildlife. TransCanada, the company building the oil pipeline, has to receive permission from the United States government to begin construction. If the United States does not have the pipeline built and chooses to not use Canada’s oil, then TransCanada will have the pipeline built elsewhere and exported to other countries. There has been a divide between those in favor of the Keystone XL and those who are not. The Keystone XL would be able to provide the United States with a reliable source of oil, but it would also take the risk of faults in the oil pipeline and ruining parts of America’s resourceful soil. The Keystone XL will cause a negative effect on the environment and damage resourceful land; therefore, the oil pipeline should not be constructed.

Now in first few weeks of the new administration, President Trump has been acting fast to keep his promises. Some of the first actions he took were to fulfill his promises concerning jobs and the economy. Before Trump was inaugurated he was given credit for keeping some jobs, from Carrier, from going to Mexico and some have said that was Trump proving that he could keep his promise to bring back jobs. His critics said that these particular jobs were never going to leave in the first place, and that these ‘kept’ jobs ought to be attributed to Obama’s administration not the then President Elect Trump. Some of the first place and that Trump signed after he was inaugurated were concerned with the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines

Some people believe that the president should not approve the construction because of what could happen to so many people and the wellbeing of our country.

“For years, the Keystone pipeline has occupied what I frankly consider an over-inflated role in our political discourse,” said Obama (Article 2, Pg. 2). The Keystone and the Dakota pipeline one of two rejected by government administration. Protest still till this day are being held by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, other Native American tribes, and other supporters, to put a stop to the building of the pipeline which carries crude oil through: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois.

One of the most controversial issues faced nowadays is the way we deal with the transport of oil. One of the proposed methods is The Keystone XL Pipeline. Although there are some pros associated with building the pipeline, the risk outweighs the benefits by far. Building the Keystone XL pipeline would negatively affect the environment, jeopardize the public health and is to no benefit to the American people.

The Keystone XL proposal is fascinating in both its complexity and controversy. As the pipeline would go through Canada and the United States, approval from the government of each country is required for the project to proceed. Political, economic, and environmental issues in both countries have put pressure on the governments with advocates and opponents for the proposal vying to have their voices heard. Even the Canadian federal political parties do not all agree on whether or not the pipeline should be built. The Conservatives, for instance support the proposal, citing its potential economic benefits while the Greens are against the project, arguing that the environmental impact is far greater than the economic gains it might produce. First Nations groups also have an important stake in the outcome of the project. The approaches taken towards aboriginal issues by the two parties have differed greatly from one another, further dividing the Greens and the Conservatives. Indeed, both parties seem so firmly entrenched in their own stances that it seems highly unlikely that they will ever reach an agreement on the project. Unless the Green Party and the Conservative Party can come to a consensus on the Keystone XL proposal’s effects on the economy, environment, and First Nations, they will be unable to reconcile their positions.

On March 23, almost 27 years to the day following the historic Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, Donald Trump issued a presidential permit to the Canadian company, TransCanada for its controversial Keystone XL pipeline, formally restarting a fight over the pipeline that first kicked off when it was first proposed in 2008. Those opposing the pipeline had scored a major victory in November 2015 when President Obama rejected the project saying it wouldn’t help the economy or increase the United States’ energy security. A change in leadership, however, has fueled a move away from clean energy and fighting climate change and embracing the fossil fuel-driven economic

The Keystone XL Pipeline Project has many pros and cons just as any project does, but this project has way bigger cons than most projects this country will face today. “The Keystone XL Pipeline is an environmental crime in progress.” “It’s also been called the most destructive project on the planet.” The major issues with the Keystone XL Pipeline are “the dirty tar sands oil, the water waste, indigenous populations, refining tar sands oil and don’t forget the inevitable; pipeline spills.” And these are just some of the environmental issues, not too mention how building this thing from Canada to Texas; 2,100 miles to be exact, is affecting the people and their land, as stated “this isn’t a little tiny pipeline,

I think that trade policies in a union view could fit into a sustainable approach. I can also see some problems as well with this approach. An example that is current is the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota. Here are some of the issues- 1. Will affect the animals and their habits. 2 May impact oil production. 3. What pipelines could mean for the climate. 4. How the pipelines will impact people. The BlueGreen Alliance is a partnership of union labor groups and environmental groups. Together they have created a plan for long and short term goals that help companies with finance, new technology, and improve new projects. We also have to take in to consideration the location and climate. For location we have to look at political and trade relationships.

With an increasing global population and ever industrializing society 's, environmental concern is rarely given priority over economic incentive. But what people fail to realize is that our environmental failures, and relative apathy about it set up a plethora of problems for future generations to deal with. One of the most important decisions president Obama will face in the next year will be whether or not to approve the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, a massively sized, and massively controversial oil pipeline that would stretch all the way from Alberta Canada, to American oil refineries along the Gulf Of Mexico. Despite the economic incentive present, the building of the Keystone XL pipeline should not happen because of the

Imagine you live in a world where you cannot breathe properly because of the carbon levels in the atmosphere. Some argue that this world will become a reality if the Keystone XL pipeline is built. The Keystone XL pipeline is 1179 mile pipeline that transports oil from Hardisty to Steele City, then connects back to the main pipeline. This pipeline will significantly impact the greenhouse gas levels by emitting even more carbon dioxide than that which is currently being output. But some argue that a pipeline is the most environmentally friendly way to transport crude oil.

When analyzing the impacts of the building of the Keystone XL pipeline it can be seen it will impact our means of energy supplies. One way the United States would be helped is the Keystone XL pipeline would give the United States an increase in energy security. Or in other words, it would help stabilize the oil supply in the United States. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, “In 2013, the United States consumed a total of 6.89 million barrels of petroleum products, and average of 18.89 million barrels per day” (“How much oil is consumed in the United States”). Based on these statistics generated by the United States Energy Information Administration Americans have a heavy reliance on these products. With a

The Keystone XL Pipeline would be carrying oil from the Tar-sands, which emits 17 percent more carbon than other oil extractions (Brady and Horsley, par. 8). A report from the Sierra Club founded that, “an increase in tar-sands development could increase U.S. green- house gas emissions from 27 to 125 million tons by 2015” (Palliser, par. 8). The National Resources Defense Council reported that, “tar-sands oil also creates emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide, which contribute to acid rain (Palliser, par. 8). Allowing the construction of the Keystone pipeline would help increase production of dangerous oil, by giving a new pathway for increased

Probably the most antagonistic debate of President Obama’s secondary term, the Keystone pipeline system controversy has caused a major disturbance in the political regime due to its heavily disputed factual evidence. Ever since construction began in 2008 and it was commissioned in 2010, the Phase I portion of the pipeline has been haunted by talk of the possible expansion causing disorder among environmentalists and preservationists. While Phase II and Phase III have been completed since the current date, Phase IV, commonly referred to as the Keystone XL pipeline, has been put to startling halt due to the President’s veto on February 11, 2015, to a bill passed by the Senate advocating the pipeline. The President’s veto was placed forth due

Our goals : Our intentions are to disrupt the ecological balance by laying waste to the infrastructure of oil pipelines, to bring awareness of the inherent perils to public knowledge. We intend to disrupt the ecological infrastructure by committing one of the worst Eco disasters mankind has ever seen. We intend to disrupt the flow of “liquid gold” to bring about awareness and change. Our goal is coercion, we aim to ultimately coerce the masses to substitute dangerous oil pipelines for cleaner, sustainable energy sources, which do not pollute the lungs of our earth. We intend to incapacitate the system by raising pressure, breaking the threshold, and causing an eruption from the inside out. Our goal is to bring about societal and environmental change forcibly.