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Laid-off Keystone worker speaks out against Biden canceling pipeline - YouTube
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executive order spree stretching into
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today
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the focus going to be on climate change
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a ban on new leases for oil and gas
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drilling and fracking on federal lands
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this follows the president's order last
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week revoking the permit for the
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keystone xl pipeline project
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well our next guest was directly
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impacted by these orders i want to bring
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in
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former keystone xl pipeline worker neil
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crabtree neil good morning
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good morning thank you for having me
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well first i want to say i'm so sorry
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about you losing
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uh your job on the pipeline i know that
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you were one of the first groups to be
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uh let go how are you doing
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i'll uh i'm doing fine right now uh
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i'm just taking a few days to kind of
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get my thoughts together
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and uh see what the future holds for me
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but it's uh
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it's nerve wracking right now and uh
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it's an uncertain time for me and i
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think it's an uncertain time for the
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entire country
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how are you and your friends your
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colleagues your co-workers how are they
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handling this i mean i know a lot of you
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moved up to the area
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to work on the pipeline and now this
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news with the stroke of a pen from
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president biden
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uh yes ma'am i mean you spend a lot of
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money you know traveling and and setting
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up
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in these communities you're going to be
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working and then
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you know being told you lost your job
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and have to pack up and come home it's
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uh
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it's financially tough sometimes
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but the guys i work with they're doing
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the best they can too though i mean
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we've got people that haven't worked
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you know in almost a year and we were
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really dependent on this this project to
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uh
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to provide for our industry our families
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insurance we need projects we need
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projects like this all the time
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well and we were just sad that uh sorry
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go ahead go ahead go ahead well i just
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you know go ahead it's 11
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000 workers neil you know it's you it's
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11 000 jobs that we're talking on the
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line here
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and you know you've got president biden
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democrats control congress
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you know they're saying we're going to
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replace
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the pipeline jobs with green energy jobs
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i mean do you see that as something
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that's going to be in your future
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uh this country's got to figure out a
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way to balance it
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we can't go that extreme with this uh
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they're calling the green new deal
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you know actually i refer to it as the
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dark new deal because
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i don't think americans are going to be
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able to afford to keep their lights on
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if we if we go that extreme
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you know it it also too the fact that
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it's not just you know up
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along the pipeline but it's also the
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overall oil and gas industry i mean have
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you thought about maybe
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texas louisiana i mean there's still
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fracking going on i mean is there
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another
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route that you could take in in your
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career now
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uh i'm just afraid this is the beginning
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you know
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with the cancellation of this keystone
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xl we've been fighting
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other projects for years that are
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getting canceled i just think it's uh
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it's the beginning and you know the i'm
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worried about the future
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i really am yeah a lot of people are i
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want to bring in my colleague john
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hilzermath he has a
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a question for you neil if that's okay
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john go ahead yes sir hey
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i'd love to hear a little bit more about
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your journey
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this keystone pipeline has been so up
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and down for the last four years with
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obama rejecting it and then trump
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accepting it and then biden rejecting it
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can you tell us kind of kind of when you
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started working for tc energy
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and kind of what your own path has been
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and kind of where you are now and how
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you got there
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uh well this project's you know has been
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trying to go for almost 10 years now and
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i just i just
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you know recently been employed we just
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got started on construction
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about three weeks ago so i haven't been
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working for
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tc energy this whole time i've been
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doing other projects
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well i mean i could i guess that's my my
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other question there because you know
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now
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just to let our viewers know to let you
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know you know we're going to hear more
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on the oil and gas industry today from
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president biden he's expected to sign
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another
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executive order you know limiting
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drilling you know
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federal lands i mean it seems like
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they're really trying to to clamp down
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i mean if you did have president biden's
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ear nil
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what would you say to him in particular
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about the job losses
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what would you say
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i would ask him to tell the truth about
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the real reason these permits
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are being canceled you know they're
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they're telling the american public is
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because of climate change
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and they're portraying this pipeline as
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new construction
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that's bringing new oil into the country
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and that's just not the truth
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it's the soil's already been coming in
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by a rail car and we're just trying to
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get it in
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in a more efficient way i look at it
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like this uh
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you're trying to get water into your
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house by carrying it a bucket
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at a time out of a outside well let's
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put some americans to work and
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let's build some indoor plumbing and i
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mean
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the if you can transport it
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cheaper i mean the benefits directly
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uh are passed on to the american people
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well neil i would say
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that it's safer by pipeline and i think
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that's what you're kind of alluding to
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here that it
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i mean why why would you want to to
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transport that go back to above ground
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transportation whether it's rail car
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whether it's truck
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those trains those trucks are
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gas guzzling they contribute to the
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emissions problem
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you know and the polluted air the
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climate which is i think that's what
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doesn't make sense to me neil
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it doesn't make sense to a lot of people
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but uh
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i mean you're absolutely right about
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that i mean there's been articles
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written about the amount of traffic on
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these rails
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that are bringing this oil in it's a
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huge safety concern
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you've got a long black train with a
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cloud of smoke coming out of it versus
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a pipeline underground that you never
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see
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like i said yesterday in an interview
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it's it's common sense and uh
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some people don't seem to have common
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sense these days
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well neil good luck to you and please
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keep us posted i do hope
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that that you find something else is in
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the middle of all this and
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we're so sorry about your job loss neil
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okay well thank you for having me on all
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right thank you sir have a great day
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