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The Keystone XL Pipeline will not be subject to President Donald Trump's executive order requiring infrastructure projects to be built with American steel, a White House spokeswoman said today.
Trump signed the order calling for the Commerce Department to develop a plan for U.S. steel to be used in all new pipelines, as well as retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipelines inside the U.S. projects to the maximum extent possible.
By the White Houses judgment, that description would not include Keystone XL, which developer TransCanada first proposed in 2008.
The Keystone XL Pipeline is currently in the process of being constructed, so it does not count as a new, retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipeline, the White House spokeswoman said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/keystone-pipeline-buy-american-exemption-235639?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange
spanone
(135,846 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)with the wind as he promotes his lying propaganda. This jerk is a disaster.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)freaking republican liars are disgusting.
America deserves better.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)He WAGED his finger at me and said it would all be built with American steel!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)flygal
(3,231 posts)how do they get away with it.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)no matter what his exec order says.
babylonsister
(171,074 posts)dt doesn't want to bite one of the hands that feeds him.
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/19/dakota-access-pipeline-steel-evraz-russia-putin
Like Keystone XL, Much of Dakota Access Pipeline Steel Made by Russian Company Tied to Putin
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Progressive dog
(6,905 posts)didn't last long, but we get a pipeline to carry Canadian tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico, so it can be shiipped to China.
I wonder if Trump counts the anticipated need for spill cleanup workers in his jobs claims for the pipeline.
Takket
(21,578 posts)RedWedge
(618 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 3, 2017, 02:26 PM - Edit history (1)
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