Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, center, talks with Barnard Construction president Marty Jorgensen as he conducts a tour of Keystone XL pipeline sites in Phillips and Valley counties and a public hearing in Glasgow on Friday. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte conducts a public hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline in Glasgow on Friday. Gov. Greg Gianforte got a firsthand look Friday at the material that will go unused and talked with the people who stand to lose income and tax dollars following President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The newly elected governor met with construction heads, energy managers and local officials who voiced their concerns about the president’s decision, which has again stunted a project that is in its twelfth year of development. “There is no good reason why this pipe is sitting here and not going into the ground,” said Gianforte in front of a pipe yard several miles north of Saco. For over a decade, construction of the pipeline has been stop-and-go due to parties combating over issues ranging from environmental safety, economic interests and tribal sovereignty. The planned 1,179 miles of steel pipe would carry an estimated 830,000 barrels of […]
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