stone xl the decision yesterday from the
president what would you say to those
who
have lost their job or will lost their
job as a result of that decision what
would the message from the president and
the white house be
the message of the president and the
white house would be that he is
committed his record will show shows the
american people that he's committed to
clean energy jobs to jobs that
are not only good high-paying jobs
union jobs but ones that are also
good for our environment he thinks it's
possible to do both
so how's that working out that was three
months ago when the white house
responded to those who lost their jobs
after the keystone pipeline cancellation
but hundreds of workers are still out of
work
waiting for those green jobs to show up
fox news headlines 24 7 reporter carly
shimkus
went back to arkansas to follow up on
all this and carly
what did you hear well david on his very
first day in office like you said
president biden signed that executive
order canceling the keystone xl pipeline
and 11
000 jobs with it that was over two
months ago
and i just learned that many of those
people are still
struggling take a look
i mean it's hard to make plans when
you've got an administration that's
trying to crush your future so the
pipeline was killed in january
it's now april give us an update have
you been able to find a job
not with the pipeline or any other thing
right now especially with the green
energy
projects he talked about i've looked for
them green jobs and they're not there
and that's the reason i
started a trucking company is because
there are no green
jobs there i mean i'm looking dead in
his eyes and telling him
i lost probably 60 to 80 grand not being
able to go on that job
i mean that's that's my livelihood if
i'm not
off working i'm barely scraping by i got
two kids i'm having to support
what am i supposed to do there without
working we lose insurance
income my whole family's unemployed
your whole family my whole family so
what is everybody going to do we don't
know we'll lose everything we have
that we've worked our entire lives for
tell me a little bit about
bald knob arkansas they call it the
pipeliner capital of the world we're
looking at a lot of out of work
pipeliners right now so what's the mood
in this town right now
it's terrible it's terrible you can
usually this time of year you drive
around you don't see any welding rigs
around
and they're everywhere now so all of
these people
should be in another state working on
the pipeline
and they're here drawing unemployment if
you're lucky enough
president biden just unveiled his 2.3
trillion dollar
infrastructure plan i'm proposing a plan
for the nation that rewards work not
just rewards wealth
i'm a union guy i support unions unions
built the middle class it's about time
they start to get
piece of the action do you feel included
in that plan
well no of course not it used to be blue
collar joe was
a green caller joe now the middle class
is standing right here looking at him
telling him hey we're hurting
and we need jobs and he hasn't even
he hasn't even came on the news and said
one thing about it i'm not saying let's
just do away with green energy but uh i
think just dropping what we have
now and going to something different is
not a very good idea he's not helping us
and i don't know of any unions that he's
held so far
in other trades i don't know if he's
going to or not but i know that's what
he says and
i'll believe it when i see it it's
certainly not for union pipelines
you and 20 other state ag's
have a lawsuit you're suing the biden
administration to try and
overturn that pipeline decision you say
killing it is unconstitutional
this is a decision of congress to make
it is not the president's decision to
make and so when he
used that pin and eliminated the
keystone pipeline permit he did so
without
proper authority we're simply asking the
court is to
revoke that cancellation and to allow
the
pipeline to move forward until congress
makes the decision are you confident
that you're going to win
we are confident that we're going to win
because we're on the right side of the
law but unfortunately
for these hard-working arkansans uh you
know it could be months
perhaps before we were able to get an
injunction you haven't given up on the
keystone pipeline
no because their solar and their wind
they still have to have gas and oil to
run those things
you can't just flip the switch and turn
crude oil off
you know i knew when he canceled the
keystone that that was just the kind of
the beginning of the attack
on oil and gas and try to force us in a
greener direction we need to stand up
and let the administration know that
there's a lot of americans out here that
depend on
oil and gas and whether the
administration wants to
admit it or not they depend on it too
are you going to give up on the keystone
xl pipeline
um if the gas company sells the pipe
and gives up then i'll give up but until
then if that pipe's still up there
there's still a chance
yeah and you know david many of these
people say that they took what
president biden john kerry jensocki said
seriously they looked for those green
energy
jobs they tried and they either aren't
there or they don't pay well
carly what a magnificent report i mean
that
to show compare the plans of washington
with real life common sense experience
common sense wins out every time when
you're able to see them side by side
carly great stuff
thank you very much