Keystone Pipeline

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told KGVO News on Wednesday that Montana and 20 other states are filing suit in federal court to stop President Biden from cancelling the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Evelyn Pyburn mentioned a bill that would jeopardize independent contractors. The bill is known as the PRO Act, and has been introduced by Congressional Democrats in the past.

Over 90 Montana legislators in both the House and the Senate signed a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to reverse his decision to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline.

It will be the first time in 46 years that a Montana pipeline company has to lay off 40-50 workers. That was the line that stood out to me, after Governor Greg Gianforte (R-MT) toured Phillips and Valley Counties in Northeastern Montana on Friday. The governor saw firsthand the impacts of President Biden's job-killing decision to shutdown the Keystone XL pipeline.

There's at least one gas station in Missoula whose prices are not displayed due to the fact that prices are rising rapidly, day to day.

Montana's governor got to see the job-killing impacts of President Biden's agenda firsthand. Governor Greg Gianforte toured several areas impacted by Biden's decision to shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, and the labor union jobs that went with it.

With the Biden Administration already shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, threatening a new round of gun control measures, and in anticipation of a host of new regulations attacking oil, gas, coal, and ag- someone is going to have to stand up and challenge this federal overreach on Montana's behalf. That task will in large part fall on the shoulders of Montana's Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R-MT), a rancher and attorney from Culbertson, Montana.

"The loss of Keystone XL’s economic activity and tax revenues are especially devastating as five of the six impacted counties are designated high-poverty areas."

"While COVID-19 relief dollars have helped the State of Montana so far avoid the budgetary impacts of the 2020 lockdowns, restrictions, and economic shutdowns- it is pretty obvious that we will have some work to do to get Montana's economy fully back up and running."

"After voting for the measure to support the pipeline, Sens. Joe Manchin and Jon Tester voted against it, joining the rest of the Democratic caucus early Friday in passing an amendment by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to strip the Keystone XL language from the budget resolution."