The Keystone pipeline project was an immediate casualty when Joe Biden and his administration took office in 2021, as the incoming leader made a statement to appease climate activists. The pipeline was killed off by a first-day executive order by the president, titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis. In the order, Biden said that the Keystone XL project, which aimed to carry crude oil from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, “disserves the U.S. national interest.”
Now, In a report quietly published at the end of 2022, Joe Biden’s Department of Energy revealed the president had killed tens of thousands of jobs when he ended the Keystone XL pipeline project with the stroke of a pen, Western Journal reports. While stating that it believed “the high-end figure overstates jobs,” the DOE acknowledged that some studies showed between 16,149 to 59,468 temporary jobs created by the project, though not all of those were lost by its cancellation.
The report also stated that the study “estimated that the construction of the KXL pipeline would contribute $3.4 Billion (or 0.02 percent) to the United States Gross Domestic Product.” In the report, the DOE said the Biden administration reached the decision to eliminate the pipeline’s permits because “its construction and operation would not be consistent with U.S. climate goals and it would undermine the global energy and climate leadership role of the United States.”
The estimates were taken from a 2014 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, which stated that 50 permanent jobs would be created by the project. “Construction jobs would be more significant but temporary; if construction were to take two years, about 3,900 direct jobs would be created annually during construction, and 21,050 U.S. total jobs would be created, counting indirect and induced jobs,” the report stated. “Other estimates for temporary jobs during the construction phase ranged from 16,149 to 59,468 annually for a two-year period. However, the study includes segments of the Keystone pipeline that were not related to the XL portion and jobs corresponding to those sections that were built were realized.
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President Joe Biden travelled to the U.S. southern border for the first time on Sunday, landing in El Paso, Texas, amid the record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossing during his presidency.
El Paso was in chaos hours before Biden’s arrival, with hundreds of illegal immigrants sleeping on the streets, and some illegally charging residents for free parking spots and stealing cell phones, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported. The number of illegal immigrants coming to the city has dropped “since the peak in December” when it was “2,000 a day,” to a current number of 700 a day, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on the flight over.