The Keystone XL Pipeline is a pipeline that has run through the United States since 2010. It was owned by TC energy until 2020, when the ownership went to the government of Alberta in Canada. The argument of this pipeline being placed has been going on for over several years now and still a decision has not been finalized. Biden has recently declined this bill being placed which caused an outrage by politicians who claim this bill is a no brainer and should be put through and acted upon.This pipeline is such a great decision because it will have big positive and negative impacts. This bill however will have a greater negative impact than a positive one.
Firstly building this pipeline will be bad for the climate. When burning the recoverable tar sands oil the earth’s temperature will increase by 2 degrees celsius. This could cause an even greater price on things like negative weather events like doubts due to the increasing temperature. With the U.S already being in debt, this will just add to the already big cost.
Secondly this pipeline will not be creating jobs, but instead cutting them. Despite the opinion that with this pipeline being installed people will have job opportunities and become employed, this bill will instead just have more people become minimum wage workers for a job that could create more problems then fix them. These companies will also fire their employees, an example of this is in 2010 alone, the top five oil companies slashed their global workforce by 4,400 employees. So what’s to say this won’t happen again? These oil companies that would promise these minimum wage jobs would also fire this many employees in one year which cause even more unemployment.
Overall, this pipeline will only create more problems then it will fix. It will increase our global warming problem, possibly worsen the U.S debt and worsin unemployment. This is why Biden should not have said yes to the pipeline being installed.
