Trump Signs Executive Orders Advancing Controversial Dakota Access, Keystone Pipelines

[Richard D]

Source: NBC4

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday advancing the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.

"If we're going to be building pipelines in the United States, we'll build the pipes in the United States," Trump said in signing the executive orders.

He also acknowledged dispute over the Keystone pipeline, and told reporters in the Oval Office that the moves on the pipelines will be subject to the terms and conditions being renegotiated by the United States.

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[Turbineguy]

1. He'll own

the oil spill.

[IronLionZion]

3. Those states voted for him

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Probably not the Native Americans whose land is threatened, though.

[Else You Are Mad]

4. Nope.

Every American citizen will own the oil spill because it will be the tax payers that pay for the clean ups and not the corporation that owns the pipelines.

[atreides1]

10. Nope

American citizens will pay for it, but that doesn't mean we own it!

[Else You Are Mad]

12. Good point. Nt.

[karynnj]

5. Exactly, though I hope that the price of oil has made the pipeline not profitable for the

Trans Canada. My greatest fear, was that after the State Department received a report that excluded the damage from extracting the tar sands and concentrated JUST on climate change impact, that President Obama and Secretary Kerry might be forced by all the pressure to agree to it. Glad that they stood up to pressure and ignored the report's conclusion.

Instead, Secretary Kerry can easily be seen as the secretary of state who has made protection the environment his signature issue as much as Clinton made the welfare of women and children hers -- and President Obama backed both of them on their issues.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Destroying the environment is top on the list he and his corrupt cabinet

are going to accomplish.

Too bad there isnt a way for their intentional act to be rewarded directly to them by the climate.

[Cryptoad]

7. I reckon,,,,

All farther protesters will be charged with "Felony Protesting"?

[etherealtruth]

8. Must further enrich the 1% .... no cost to environemnt or "regular" people is too high

He is a gross caricature of evil and incompetence

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. The dangerous congress is letting him be dangerous -

Just look behind the curtain...you could hear a pin drop - the media - well, I have no words....

[hibbing]

11. I know it sounds selfish

But I'm glad I don't have children or grandchildren. I fear for my future, let alone all those younger than me.


Peace

[Liberal In Red State]

13. Here we go again! While we wait for the CIA and FBI to do anything about this treasonous orange ass

he and the GOP are knocking down all liberal agendas for the past 50 years! So what good did it do for Obama to stop the pipeline if liberals were going to vote their principles for write-in candidates or not vote for HRC? Nothing Obama accomplished will be left standing within 6 months . . . will the public care? Only the liberals and they will not be organized enough to take him down at midterms probably not even within 4 years!

[Botany]

14. CO2 weighs 44 ... 02 weighs 32 so CO2 can hold more energy (heat) then O2

[Qanisqineq]

15. I am terrified about what that will mean for the protectors/protesters

I live 30 miles away from Standing Rock in ND. I have seen how little the white people around here care if the Native Americans are just mowed down. I feel sick.

[KewlKat]

16. that was my first thought as well. i dont want the protectors killed

[hamsterjill]

17. I totally agree. I can't believe that some people cannot understand the importance of this stand.

But from comments I've seen, you're absolutely correct that so many there think the protestors and protectors are a hindrance. In 25 years when those people are gasping for air because they've been poisoned, they may be singing a different tune.

That's the part that absolutely baffles me. The detractors cannot see what's on the horizon. Absolute stupidity.