Τρίτη 24 Ιανουαρίου 2017

The President Trump approved, under certain conditions, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access



The US president Donald Trump signed today a series of legislative acts to accelerate the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access and to determine that the ducts made in the US territory of American origin steel will be used.

The Trump also signed a decree which brought forward the environmental studies and the adoption of high priority infrastructure projects. These projects are part of the initiative for the construction of airports, highways and bridges.

Speaking to reporters Obama noted that his government "will renegotiate some of the terms" construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, adding that it will create "many jobs, 28,000 jobs, wonderful jobs in the construction sector".

He also noted that the pipeline of North Dakota "will be subject to the terms and conditions we will negotiate."

The statutes, he argued, "will bring back to work too many steelworkers." "We insist that if you are going to build on US pipelines, the pipes should be made in the US", he concluded.

Protests for both pipelines approved the President Trump, satisfied by Canada for a decision

Strong protest expressed in its communication, the tribe of Sioux upright Rock (Standing Rock) for the executive orders signed today the US president Donald Trump through which the pipeline Dakota Access that will transport crude from North Dakota may be built in Illinois and from there to the Gulf of Mexico.

The tribe claims that this pipeline cost US $ 3.8 billion, will contaminate water supplies not only Amerindon living in the area and all Americans and warned it would take legal action for the annulment of the decision of the President.

The tribe of Sioux upright Rock also claims that the pipeline would go through sacred places for Amerindous where buried their ancestors, while threatening drinking water sources.

In a separate statement a lawyer representing the tribe noted that the president's action was "hasty and irresponsible."

For its part, the Government of Canada welcomed the Trump President's decision on the pipeline Keystone XL. "We are in favor of the Keystone and, as everyone knows, the Canadian side of this project has already been approved," said Christy Freeland, the Foreign Minister of Canada.

In US Republicans reacted with enthusiasm, but activists protecting the environment and Democrats MPs and Senators unanimously denounced the "unfortunate" the president's initiative. "Today the president Trump ignored the voices of millions of Americans and gave priority to short-term profits of fossil fuel industry instead give (priority) in the future of our planet," said Senator Bernie Sanders, former rival Hillary Clinton in the primaries for the nomination the Democratic Party.

For the organization "Friends of the Earth" (Friends of the Earth), the Republican president clearly demonstrated "his allegiance to the oil groups and banks of Wall Street" at the expense "of public health and the environment."

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