“Today we begin to make things right,” President Trump said Friday morning shortly after the State Department granted<br />the pipeline giant TransCanada a permit for Keystone construction, a reversal of Obama administration policy.<br />“Keystone XL will create thousands of good middle-class jobs for Canadians during construction.’’<br />Though Mr. Obama ultimately took a different stand, his State Department concluded in an environmental-impact statement<br />that the pipeline project would not add to carbon pollution because the oil would find its way to market one way or another.<br />Jack Gerard, the president and chief executive of the American Petroleum Institute, the primary industry lobbying arm, said the decision was “welcome news”<br />and was “critical to creating American jobs, growing the economy and making our nation more energy secure.’’<br />Opponents say the pipeline is unnecessary at a time when American oil production is soaring<br />and future demand has been put in question by increasingly efficient cars, electric cars and growing concerns over climate change.<br />U. S., in Reversal, Issues Permit for Keystone Oil Pipeline -<br />By CLIFFORD KRAUSSMARCH 24, 2017<br />The Trump administration approved a permit for the construction of a pipeline to carry oil<br />from Canada to the Gulf Coast, reversing an Obama policy and angering environmentalists.<br />Protests helped sway the Obama administration to reject the project, and environmentalists have been further emboldened by demonstrations last year in North Dakota, mostly by Native American groups,<br />that have delayed another project, the Dakota Access Pipeline.
