Biden Will Let States and Tribes Block Pipelines, Reversing Another Trump Energy Policy
Penny Starr 3 Jun 2022
Donald Trump spent his presidency scaling back the regulatory bureaucracy around the Clean Water Act, but now Joe Biden is trying to undo what the former president did by giving power to states and tribes to stop projects like pipelines that they claim could hurt rivers and streams.
The Associated Press (AP) reported on the development:
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One of, if not the biggest anti-pipeline protests, was protesting a double thickness pipe placed in a directionally drilled hole ninety feet below the bottom of the body of water.
Keep in mind, nothing is good enough for these people. Goalposts are not static, and compliance is a moving target. It takes time to change the route, rights of way have to be negotiated, surveys conducted for rare plants and animals, raptors, archaeological sites, paleontological sites, any place a preColumbian native broke wind, etc. Then there is the modified EIS for the project, if you are not required to start again from scratch.
This is just one more tool to make sure America comes in last.
I just hope and pray the AntiAmerican pisswits who actually voted for this idiot are happy.