The former Energy Secretary of the Trump Administration, Dan Brouillette, reacts to democratic legislators who push to end the national energy emergency and potential levels to relaunch the Keystone XL pipeline.
Trump’s former energy secretary, Dan Brouillette, predicted that the Keystone XL pipeline could be operational in two years if the president’s floating plans to relaunch the project are materialized.
“I think that if you could eliminate the ineffectiveness of the authorization process and, frankly, clean up part of the judicial activity around this particular project, you could probably do it in about two years,” Brouillette, who was an energy secretary from 2019 to 2021 on Wednesday.
“It is a massive project, but this industry is very, very good in what it does, and it could do it very effectively.”
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Keystone XL pipeline pipes are stacked in a courtyard near Oyen, Alberta, Canada, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. (Jason Franson / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
However, a “whip effect” in which an administration embraces the project and another steals it, slows down the financing of these projects, he added.
The story presented the challenge to trigger the pipeline when he started taking shape during Trump’s first term, but was “abandoned” in 2021 when former president Biden revoked the TC Energy Corp. For the pipeline via the hours of the executive decree after its inauguration.
The company finally abandoned the project in June 2021 due to the cancellations of permits.
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US President Donald Trump announces the final approval of Pipeline XL following a meeting with the National Economic Council at the White House Oval Office on March 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Asset turned his attention In the project again on Monday, calling the company behind its construction to “return to America and build it – now!”
The construction of the Keystone XL pipeline began in 2010 and was finally interrupted by the president of the time, Barack Obama, before continuing during Trump’s first term.
The project was initially to be completed in early 2023 and would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the United States
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Stepheny Price of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
