Laid-off Keystone Pipeline Workers Shred Biden’s Reckless ‘Green’ Executive Order
Laid-off Keystone XL pipeline workers in Fouke, Arkansas, spoke about the financial catastrophe that they face after Joe Biden terminated the cost-saving energy project.
Valerie Knight and her husband were two of the workers negatively affected by the Democrat president’s hasty decision.
“My husband and I, we were both going to be able to have the opportunity to work on the Keystone,” Knight told Fox News. “That was going to be my first job back as a helper after having our little boy.” Knight added that the opportunity was destroyed with a single signature from Biden’s pen.
According to estimations from labor groups, Biden’s termination of the Keystone XL pipeline eliminated at least 1,000 good-paying energy sector jobs and at least 10,000 construction jobs.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told HBO, “If you destroy 100 jobs in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where I grew up, and you create 100 jobs in California, it doesn’t do those 100 families much good.”
Trumka also slammed elitist Democrat efforts to promote training miners to become computer programmers. “You know, when they laid off at the mines back in Pennsylvania, they told us they were going to train us to be computer programmers.”
Valerie Knight expressed further disappointment in Biden’s “green energy” plans.
“My husband has spent many, many hours practicing to become a welder,” Knight said. “To be able to turn around and go into a different job trade completely, we would be starting over.”
The Biden Administration’s rationale for eliminating thousands of jobs is that he planned on creating “high-paying union jobs” that prioritize “green energy.”
Biden’s climate agenda claims that he will create 10 million jobs. The timeline for these jobs, however, is currently unknown.
