First of all- it is a natural gas pipeline. Aren’t Climate Change Activists supposed to support those?
Or is natural gas the enemy now too?
The truth is it doesn’t matter what decision Biden would have made about the gas pipeline, the liberals would have found a way to ridicule him for it. Living by the code of the liberal agenda means that you eat your own.
Fox News reported the following:
“The Biden administration green-lit an 807-mile natural gas pipeline project in Alaska that environmentalists blasted as a threat to the climate and wildlife.
“The Department of Energy (DOE) issued a supplemental record of decision, reaffirming its original approval of the project in 2020 under the Trump administration, but amending it to include additional environmental protections. In addition to the pipeline, the $38.7 billion project proposed by the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) also includes liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure.”
“The Department of Energy today issued an order amending a 2020 decision to impose new environmental requirements that prevents venting carbon dioxide, in addition to reaffirming all prior environmental conditions,” the DOE said in a statement.
“This order does not approve construction of the project — that was done by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2020.”
“This order also does not evaluate the long-term viability of the project related to factors outside of DOE’s regulatory scope,” the statement continued. “FERC, an independent agency, has regulatory oversight of the siting, construction, and operation of the Alaska LNG project.
The State of Alaska’s [AGDC] is developing an Alaska LNG project and has not yet reached a final investment decision on whether to construct the project at all.”
They’re right to be weary about the project. Recent American history has shown that once you start building someone in politics is going to get offended and make it their mission to shut it down.
Fox News continued:
“The AGDC — which the Alaska state legislature officially created a decade ago with a mandate of maximizing the state’s vast natural gas reserves — first proposed the LNG pipeline and export project in 2014. After years of environmental impact analysis, FERC authorized the project to be constructed in May 2020.
“Also in 2020, the DOE authorized AGDC to export LNG produced from Alaskan sources to any country with which the United States has not entered into a free trade agreement. The decision Thursday reaffirms that authorization with the added carbon dioxide venting prohibitions.
“With this supplemental record of decision, the Biden Administration has reaffirmed the authorization for and climate benefits of the Alaska LNG Project, which will provide Alaskans and U.S. allies with a significant source of low-emissions, responsibly produced energy consistent with international environmental priorities,” AGDC President Frank Richards said in a statement.
“Upon initial review this supplemental decision adds to the record of support for Alaska LNG and we will review it carefully as our work developing this important project continues,” he added.
What this all means is that they’ve buried this project so deep in paperwork that it doesn’t matter how hard they try to get it right- somewhere along the project something will be missed and the liberals will pounce.
Why? Because the liberals eat their own. Meaning they refuse to help improve projects, they only want to tear them down.
