Senator Steve Daines today admonished President Barack Obama for rejecting TransCanada’s application to build the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline:

“It has taken more than seven years for President Obama to come clean with the American people and admit his anti-energy and anti-American jobs agenda. President Obama had an opportunity to help create good-paying jobs with the construction of the Keystone pipeline, but instead he chose to blatantly disregard the economic needs of this nation, the need for good-paying jobs, like union jobs, energy costs for Montana families and the will of the American people. The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline by President Obama is an affront to the American people.”

Daines has long been a leading proponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would first enter the United States through Montana, and which he says would create tens of thousands of good paying jobs, bring much needed economic opportunity to Montana and move the nation one step closer to North American energy independence. According to the State Department, the pipeline will support 42,000 jobs during its construction.

The Montana Department of Revenue has estimated that in just the first year of the Keystone XL pipeline's operation, TransCanada would pay more than $80 million in Montana property taxes — more than $16 million of which would be distributed to Montana’s schools and university system.

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