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Keystone pipeline not using American
Posted: Mar 4, 2017
I understand that the steel was already here for this pipeline, yet the president said the Keystone pipeline will not be build unless it is with American steel. There were many on the right that were boasting about what he said and how great it woud be for American steelworkers. It seems yet another promise broken by the conman. Of course this is being twisted now but he did say the pipeline woud not be built unless with American steel.
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Given that a good portion of the construction is in - Canada, either making allowances
[ In Reply To ..]for Canadian steel or noting that the requirement does not apply to the portion built outside of the U.S. would seem reasonable.
Here are excepts from a much better article in the Globe and Mail that clarifies the situation. In fact, half of the pipe which has already been purchased by Transcanada for this job was made in the USA.
Avoiding a “Buy American” provision championed by Mr. Trump removes a major impediment to TransCanada proceeding with the $8-billion (U.S.) project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015 amid widespread opposition by environmentalists. TransCanada had already bought most of the pipe.
With an executive order in January, Mr. Trump set the wheels in motion for the Calgary-based company to resurrect the project. On the same day, he instructed his Commerce Department to devise a plan to ensure pipeline companies use U.S. steel in new, expanded or retrofitted pipelines “to the maximum extent possible.”
“It’s specific to new pipelines or those that are being repaired,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. “Since this one is already currently under construction, the steel is already literally sitting there, it’s hard to go back. Everything moving forward would fall under that executive order.”
(snip) TransCanada resubmitted its application in late January, and this week suspended a $15-billion challenge to Mr. Obama’s rejection under the North American free-trade agreement. The different timings of Mr. Trump’s Keystone XL revival and Buy American memoranda mean the project could be approved before the steel policy comes into force, saiThe different timings of Mr. Trump’s Keystone XL revival and Buy American memoranda mean the project could be approved before the steel policy comes into force, said Kortni Hadley, a lawyer in the corporate section of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, a New York firm that deals in U.S.-Canada issues. The State Department must make a decision on the pipeline within 60 days of the application, while the Commerce Department has 180 days to formulate the pipeline steel policy.
“So there’s not actually a Buy American rule in place at this point in which Keystone would be subject to,” Ms. Hadley said.
TransCanada would not comment directly on the Buy American issue, or whether it has been told that it is exempt. However, spokesman Terry Cunha pointed out that half the pipe the company purchased in 2012 for Keystone XL was manufactured in the United States, and that 75 per cent originated in North America.
The fact remains, Trump said we would use - American steel
[ In Reply To ..]I imagine the infrastructure will also not be built with American steel. The government will go with the lowest bidder and in order to keep costs down they will have to use non-American steel.
MSM never reports the full story. It's like teenagers and sex: You know they're - going to do it anyway.
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The Keystone pipeline does not need to be made from...sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]US steel, despite an executive order by Sdonald Trump days after he took office, the White House said on Friday.
He said he would use the already purchased stuff first - and they'd only need new
[ In Reply To ..]American pipe if they ran out before the job was done.
In other words the pipe has already been bought....
Not only bought but there is a lot of pipe already staged along the route.
That's not what he said - at all
[ In Reply To ..]he said we will use American steel. The right even claimed that in other posts. They also bragged about all the jobs it would create and it's about done. The jobs upon completion will be very minimal. He used this just as a con to get support from his followers not taking into consideration the people's whose water could be affected.
nor the people whose PLANET could be affected - hawtmk
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The pipeline is already 95% complete. Where did that - sm
[ In Reply To ..]steel come from?
So they are supposed to throw away what - MT
[ In Reply To ..]they already have? What a waste. They will use up what they have and then buy American. What a nonissue!
Actually, they shouldn't have built it at all - but since they did
[ In Reply To ..]it was told to us by him and those on the right that it was going to be American steel. It is an issue and another one of his lies.
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