Biden’s Energy Department Finds He Killed 59,000 Jobs by Canceling Keystone Pipeline

President Joe Biden’s decision to Eliminate the Keystone Pipeline On his first day of office, 59,000 jobs were lost and the U.S. experienced $9.6B in economic growth. Last month’s study published His own Energy Department.

The 875-mile, safe pipeline would have transported 830,000 barrels of oil daily from the Canadian border to Steel City (Nebraska), where it would have connected existing pipelines to American refining plants.

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Far-Left environmentalists who want gas to be more expensive for working people opposed this project for many years, before Biden finally denied the last permit to start construction. The permit was denied by Biden, and the senators. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Jim Risch (R-ID) passed a law requiring the Energy Department to issue a report on how many construction jobs were lost when the permit wasn’t built. The Energy Department finally released the study on Dec. 23, a few months after it was due to be published. It revealed that 50 permanent and 59,468 temporary construction jobs were lost when this project ended.

“The Department of Energy finally admitted to the worst kept secret about the Keystone Pipeline: President Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline sacrificed thousands of American jobs,” Risch . “To make matters worse, his decision moved the U.S. further away from energy independence and lower gas prices at a time when inflation and gas prices are drastically impacting Americans’ pocketbooks.”

Biden’s denial of Keystone permits is not the only thing he has done to make it harder for infrastructure to be built in the U.S. This will increase the cost of all infrastructure projects that are tied to the federal government.

The National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1970. It allows environmental radicals to sue federal courts to stop federal infrastructure projects. They can cause serious delays, regardless of whether their case is successful or not. Since NEPA was passed, the cost of interstate highway construction have tripled. This makes the U.S. one the most inefficient infrastructure investors around the world. NEPA’s average environmental review takes four-and-a-half years and is thousands of pages in length.

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Trump administration July 2020: NEPA reforms issuedThis required all NEPA reviews to be completed within 2 years. It also set strict page limits for the reports. These reforms also removed the requirement that federal projects have to consider climate change or other indirect environmental impacts when completing their environmental regulatory assessments.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration reversed these reforms. Democrats might claim they want the party of “supply-side liberalism,” However, until they take serious steps to allow reform, infrastructure in this country will never be affordable.