US President Joe Biden doesn’t seem happy with killing only the Keystone XL expansion project, he’s now looking at shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5..A shutdown would lead to fuel shortages and price increases across Ontario and Quebec, and further dependency on foreign supply to meet regional demands..“Yes, we are,” deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, asked in a news briefing if the administration is “studying” the impacts of a potential shutdown. .“The army corps of engineers is preparing an environmental impact to look through this.”.Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer has been actively trying to shut down the pipeline over fears of a spill into one of the Great Lakes..“Where we are with this is Canada has decided to invoke dispute resolutions of the 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty. We expect that both the US and Canada will engage constructively in those negotiations,” said Jean-Pierre..Line 5 carries about 87 million liters of oil and natural gas liquids daily between Superior, WI, and Sarnia, Ont., traversing parts of northern Michigan and Wisconsin..There is an underwater section between the Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. It is divided into two pipes that are 50 cm in diameter. Enbridge maintains they’re in good condition and have never leaked..Enbridge has said in order to keep up supply if the pipeline were to shut down, it would need 2,100 trucks to drive the route from Superior through Michigan each day, at a time when truck drivers are in short demand and the US is looking to cut down on roadway emissions, the Daily Mail reported..Biden is now caught between environmentalist and angry American drivers after gas prices have hit a seven-year high..“‘Biden wants to shut down another pipeline and increase your energy prices. Does he have any remorse for killing American jobs and families’ livelihoods?” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tweeted Monday. .On his first day in office, Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project which cost thousands of American and Canadian jobs..Running from Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska and would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil each day..“President Biden wants to destroy America’s energy sector while giving Russia a new pipeline and begging OPEC to produce more oil. It’s totally backwards. This is what it looks like to put America Last,” House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted over the weekend, according to the Daily Mail..A report released earlier this year showed the devastating economic impact in the US a shutdown would bring..“From the dynamic risk of shutting down Line 5, we’re looking at a $120 million increase in transportation fuel cost alone just in Michigan,” said Chris Ventura, Midwest executive director for Consumer Energy Alliance..He said the report estimates “$20.8 billion of loss in economic activity, $2.36 billion of loss labor earnings, whether that’s wages or salaries for people employed in these states, and over 33,000 jobs lost.”.The report says if Line 5 closes, gas prices will increase and local farmers will have to find an alternate way to get their fertilizers and feed stock..“Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport airport (DTW) for example, over 54% of the jet fuel they use to fill all of the jets is derived from Line 5, and when Line 5 is shut down one of the big questions is how is DTW going to replace that source of jet fuel,” said Ventura.“Airlines are going to be provided with limited options. One, they can raise ticket prices and two, they can actually reduce flights and cut routes out of DTW.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
US President Joe Biden doesn’t seem happy with killing only the Keystone XL expansion project, he’s now looking at shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5..A shutdown would lead to fuel shortages and price increases across Ontario and Quebec, and further dependency on foreign supply to meet regional demands..“Yes, we are,” deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, asked in a news briefing if the administration is “studying” the impacts of a potential shutdown. .“The army corps of engineers is preparing an environmental impact to look through this.”.Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer has been actively trying to shut down the pipeline over fears of a spill into one of the Great Lakes..“Where we are with this is Canada has decided to invoke dispute resolutions of the 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty. We expect that both the US and Canada will engage constructively in those negotiations,” said Jean-Pierre..Line 5 carries about 87 million liters of oil and natural gas liquids daily between Superior, WI, and Sarnia, Ont., traversing parts of northern Michigan and Wisconsin..There is an underwater section between the Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. It is divided into two pipes that are 50 cm in diameter. Enbridge maintains they’re in good condition and have never leaked..Enbridge has said in order to keep up supply if the pipeline were to shut down, it would need 2,100 trucks to drive the route from Superior through Michigan each day, at a time when truck drivers are in short demand and the US is looking to cut down on roadway emissions, the Daily Mail reported..Biden is now caught between environmentalist and angry American drivers after gas prices have hit a seven-year high..“‘Biden wants to shut down another pipeline and increase your energy prices. Does he have any remorse for killing American jobs and families’ livelihoods?” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tweeted Monday. .On his first day in office, Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project which cost thousands of American and Canadian jobs..Running from Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska and would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil each day..“President Biden wants to destroy America’s energy sector while giving Russia a new pipeline and begging OPEC to produce more oil. It’s totally backwards. This is what it looks like to put America Last,” House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted over the weekend, according to the Daily Mail..A report released earlier this year showed the devastating economic impact in the US a shutdown would bring..“From the dynamic risk of shutting down Line 5, we’re looking at a $120 million increase in transportation fuel cost alone just in Michigan,” said Chris Ventura, Midwest executive director for Consumer Energy Alliance..He said the report estimates “$20.8 billion of loss in economic activity, $2.36 billion of loss labor earnings, whether that’s wages or salaries for people employed in these states, and over 33,000 jobs lost.”.The report says if Line 5 closes, gas prices will increase and local farmers will have to find an alternate way to get their fertilizers and feed stock..“Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport airport (DTW) for example, over 54% of the jet fuel they use to fill all of the jets is derived from Line 5, and when Line 5 is shut down one of the big questions is how is DTW going to replace that source of jet fuel,” said Ventura.“Airlines are going to be provided with limited options. One, they can raise ticket prices and two, they can actually reduce flights and cut routes out of DTW.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
