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November 30, 2015

Title: Obama is a Hypocrite - Again
Topic: Keystone XL

Discussed by Sean McGarvey
with North America's Building Trades Unions (www.bctd.org)

President Obama rejected Keystone XL earlier this month, and he will most likely tout this decision as an example of his leadership on environmental issues at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, which begins today, November 30. Sean McGarvey is the President of North America's Building Trades Unions. He doesn’t believe the President is a leader on the environment. In fact, Sean says the President is a hypocrite!

Sean McGarvey says the Keystone XL would greatly benefit the economy, creating more jobs for the American people not only in the short-term, but for the long-term as well. The Keystone XL is also far more cost effective then using railroad cars to transport oil from one place to another. Furthermore, the White House has already allowed 12,000 miles of pipeline – the equivalent of ten Keystone XL’s – to be built in the United States since 2009. Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL was nothing more than a political gesture – one that cost Americans 42,000 new jobs.

If so many other oil pipelines have been built in the United States during Obama’s reign, why is the EPA only singling out the Keystone XL? Does Sean believe the US will ever be permitted to supply thousands of Americans with jobs while boosting the economy at the same time? Should the US lift the ban on exporting oil around the world? Listen in as Sean gives his opinion on these and other questions.

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