Three Representatives including Dusty Johnson are working to revive the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline project. Johnson held a round table meeting this week with Western South Dakota residents who says they’ve been negatively impacted by the shutdown of the pipeline. Dakota Rural Action remains opposed to Keystone XL and Senior Organizer and State Lobbyist Rebecca Terk says revival efforts are wasted on a dead project.
She says Keystone XL is not a good economic development project and more efforts need to be made in pushing other business developments.
Terk says the jobs that are being talked about with Keystone Xl are not permanent in nature. She says if Keystone Xl is allowed to go forward it’ll negatively effect everyone from town residents to farmers and ranchers and the environment.
Terk says even if the Representatives are able to get their legislation to restore approval of Keystone XL passed and then sent to the President, they’d never be able to get enough backing to override the expected veto.
