State oil and gas groups give support to Keystone XL pipeline
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PITTSBURGH – The Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association were joined Wednesday by a coalition of business leaders, organized labor and veterans’ groups representing Southwestern Pennsylvania to urge action in Washington, D.C., to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
The groups said in a news release the project is vital to U.S. energy and economic security.
“September nineteen marked the five-year anniversary of the initial application submitted to the State Department for the Keystone XL project. An anniversary of delay is not a call for celebration,” said Stephanie Catarino Wissman, executive director of API-PA. “After four comprehensive reviews, that agency repeatedly determined the pipeline is safe and that the project would create tens of thousands of jobs. Now is the time to build a project that is clearly in our nation’s best interest.”
“The Keystone XL pipeline has broad support here in the Commonwealth,” added Louis D. D’Amico, president and executive director of PIOGA. “From industry to business leaders to veterans groups and labor organizations, we all understand that projects like Keystone XL and the energy revolution taking place in Pennsylvania are both critical to our nation’s efforts to goal of energy self sufficiency.”
The effort was supported by a number of business, labor and government officials, including U.S. Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., and U.S. House Members Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair and Keith Rothfus, R-PA 12th District.
The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 1,179-mile, 36-inch diameter crude oil pipeline that begins in Hardisty, Alaska, and extends south to Steele City, Neb. The pipeline is a critical infrastructure project that will create tens of thousands of new U.S. jobs and bring more stable Canadian oil to market. In addition to transporting crude oil from Canada, the project will support significant growth of crude oil production in the U.S. by allowing American oil producers more access to large refining markets in the Midwest and along the Gulf Coast.