The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week, highlighting the economic benefits that the nation could have reaped via the Keystone XL Pipeline — a project whose federal permits were revoked by President Joe Biden early in his tenure.
Biden's actions on the permits effectively brought the expansive project to a halt. The report from late December estimates that a working pipeline would have been worth plenty: some $9.6 billion in economic benefits, along with nearly 60,000 jobs.
"The Biden administration finally owned up to what we have known all along — killing the Keystone XL Pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana's economy and was the first step in the Biden administration's war on oil and gas production in the United States," said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., in a Thursday statement. He lamented what he described as a a squandering of rich economic opportunity and a staggering loss for working families.
Daines and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, helped push Biden's Energy Department to release the report findings, which had been folded into the passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The department had been was obligated to publish the Keystone XL Pipeline report within 90 days of the bill's passage, but for reasons unknown, the agency waited this long for the release.
The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week, highlighting the economic benefits that the nation could have reaped via the Keystone XL Pipeline — a project whose federal permits were revoked by President Joe Biden early in his tenure.
Biden's actions on the permits effectively brought the expansive project to a halt. The report from late December estimates that a working pipeline would have been worth plenty: some $9.6 billion in economic benefits, along with nearly 60,000 jobs.
"The Biden administration finally owned up to what we have known all along — killing the Keystone XL Pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana's economy and was the first step in the Biden administration's war on oil and gas production in the United States," said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., in a Thursday statement. He lamented what he described as a a squandering of rich economic opportunity and a staggering loss for working families.
Daines and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, helped push Biden's Energy Department to release the report findings, which had been folded into the passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The department had been was obligated to publish the Keystone XL Pipeline report within 90 days of the bill's passage, but for reasons unknown, the agency waited this long for the release.
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The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week, highlighting the economic benefits that the nation could have reaped via the Keystone XL Pipeline — a project whose federal permits were revoked by President Joe Biden early in his tenure.
Biden's actions on the permits effectively brought the expansive project to a halt. The report from late December estimates that a working pipeline would have been worth plenty: some $9.6 billion in economic benefits, along with nearly 60,000 jobs.
"The Biden administration finally owned up to what we have known all along — killing the Keystone XL Pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana's economy and was the first step in the Biden administration's war on oil and gas production in the United States," said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., in a Thursday statement. He lamented what he described as a a squandering of rich economic opportunity and a staggering loss for working families.
Daines and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, helped push Biden's Energy Department to release the report findings, which had been folded into the passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The department had been was obligated to publish the Keystone XL Pipeline report within 90 days of the bill's passage, but for reasons unknown, the agency waited this long for the release.
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