Trump approves disputed oljeprosjekt – one, he has even invested in – Aftenposten

Barack Obama stopped in 2015 the Keystone XL project, a planned pipeline from Canada to the united STATES, with a so-called presidentordre that Trump now has reversed.

Environmental organizations fear that the Keystone project will contribute to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases and the fear of leaks and contamination.

the Construction of the equally controversial pipeline, Dakota Access was temporarily suspended in December after large protests from the indigenous people – and miljødemonstranter.

Aftenposten has previously written about Trump’s assets for between 130.000 and 430.000 money in Texas-company Energy Transfer Partners, as well as between 860.000 and 2.1 million in Phillips 66, which owns a quarter of the Dakota Access. Parts of this have later been sold.

Also, DNB has contributed money to fund the project. In november selected bank to sell their ownership interests in the companies that stood behind oljerørledningen.

Seven years of assessment

the Keystone XL project was scrapped by Obama after the seven years of assessment.

Trump owns shares in the Dakota Access company

– Oljerørledningen would not have contributed in any meaningful way to our economy in the long term, ” said Obama, who also stressed the project’s importance in klimasammenheng.

When the decision was announced, said Obama that the pipeline would not have contributed to the lower fuel prices for the country’s motorists. The united states ‘ energy security would not have been strengthened by his ship the “dirty” oil from Canada through the country, said Obama.

Greenpeace called the decision a victory for environmentalists, the farmers and the communities along the proposed route.

– Nauseating

obama’s decision has created reactions with the Republicans. Keystone XL would have formed the basis for the much-needed jobs, argued republican politicians.

the Gop flertallsleder in the house of Representatives, Paul Ryan, called obama’s decision “sickening”, and said that Obama had rejected thousands of well-paid jobs, rejected the United states ‘ largest trading partner and override the american people’s will and the majority in Congress.

Interests

The closer to 2,000 mile Dakota Access pipeline is planned to stretch from the Bakken field in North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois. Statoil is heavily inside the ownership in the Bakken field, which was discovered on the farm to the norskættede farmer Henry Bakken in 1951. Statoil is however not involved in the byggeplanene.

In the border area between North and South Dakota to the pipeline according to the plan laid under the Missouri river close by siouxreservatet in Standing Rock.

native Americans and environmental activists fear that the leaks will contaminate the main drikkevannskilden their and also claim that the pipeline will cross areas that have great historical and cultural significance. The resistance has led to a number of clashes between protesters and police, both locally and nationally.