Trump to advance construction of both Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines

If you had issues with Donald Trump, but you figured he might be worth rolling the dice if there was the hope of four or five things good things happening, what might have been on your list? The Supreme Court, certainly. The ObamaCare repeal, absolutely. For me, one of the issues close to the top as well was energy independence. And that doesn't only include drilling for domestic resources. Most people don't realize what a big problem transport infrastructure is, and the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines were supposed to serve as major steps in the right direction until they got stopped by a left-wing president who just flat-out hates everything about fossil fuels. Keystone XL was an especially maddening example during the Obama presidency because everyone knew the seven-year "review process" was a total sham, and no one was surprised when Obama denied the construction permit after sitting on his hands for seven years pretending to think about it. Denying Keystone was a betrayal not only to the company, but to our Canadian allies as well. They wanted to transport oil via our territory and give us a piece of the distribution and refinery action. It benefited no one to deny it, but Obama did it anyway because he was ideologically predisposed to do so, and that's all there was to it.