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Are Pipelines Safe?

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

PragerU

Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What’s the safest way to transport oil? According to environmentalists, progressive politicians, and the media, it’s anything but pipelines. Are they right? Diana Furchtgott-Roth, adjunct professor at George Washington University, dives into the data for answers. Download the PragerU app today and be the first to know when new content drops! PragerU.com/Join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0

One of the very first things President Joe Biden did on his very first day in office was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline

0:40.5

That wasn't an accident the Democrats and their environmentalist allies hate the pipeline

0:46.6

In the immortal words of our component in the movie the untouchables they want it dead

0:51.2

And now it is the company that was building the project has announced that after 16 years of futile effort

0:58.5

It won't pursue any more court appeals. They're backing out. They've had enough

1:04.4

But here's what doesn't make sense

1:07.0

Riggerous studies by the Obama administration in which Joe Biden served as vice president

1:12.2

Concluded that the pipeline would not create an environmental hazard the oil is coming out of the ground no matter what

1:19.4

It's only a question of how it gets to where it needs to go

1:23.0

The pipeline would have created thousands of construction jobs and moved large amounts of needed oil and gas from Canada to refineries in the US

1:32.6

Lots of upside almost no downside

1:36.0

That's why President Biden's antipathy towards the project is hard to understand

1:41.2

Maybe it's a safety issue. So let's look at pipelines from a safety perspective

1:46.5

Within the US oil and gas have to be transported from point A to point B

1:51.6

To do this oil producers have three choices pipeline rail or road

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