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Keystone XL Pipeline Developer Seeks
$15 Billion in Damages From US

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Posted By: earlybird, 7/5/2021 2:59:17 PM

Energy company TC Energy has said it’s seeking $15 billion in damages from the United States government over President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline project. In a statement on July 2, the Canada-based company said it had filed a notice of intent with the State Department to begin a legacy North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) claim under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. The company said it aims to “recover economic damages resulting from the revocation of the Keystone XL Project’s Presidential Permit,” adding that it suffered a loss of more than $15 billion “as a result of the U.S. Government’s breach of its NAFTA obligations.”

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Did Old-Never-Ran-A-Business-Joe think they would just shrug and walk away? Feckless little SoS Blinken has to be blinkin’ like mad...

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 7/5/2021 3:04:55 PM (No. 836628)
NAFTA was renegotiated by the US, Mexico and Canada and became the USMCA during President Trump’s administration and is currently in effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Mexico–Canada_Agreement
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MissNan 7/5/2021 3:22:27 PM (No. 836639)
I hope they get it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DaBigGuy 7/5/2021 3:38:19 PM (No. 836643)
It would be appropriate justice if the damages were paid out of the Biden Crime Family stash.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Crusty_Rusty 7/5/2021 3:41:35 PM (No. 836646)
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha I wonder what the 81 Million 'Useful Idiots' think of their Anti-Trump-Hero now. Actually, I think it's closer to 68/70 Million 'Useful Idiots'! Moocho Bigly LOLs..........
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bighambone 7/5/2021 3:44:13 PM (No. 836647)
Why shout the USA have to pay $15 billion? It’s Biden who should pay because he caused the damage. The truth be known before Biden cancelled that contract summarily, he did not follow the US Government contract laws and regulations that apply.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Nimby 7/5/2021 3:52:36 PM (No. 836654)
I totally agree with #5. Why should the US taxpayers pay for this clown’s stupidity?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: SALady 7/5/2021 4:15:38 PM (No. 836660)
Does anyone think not-my-president Lyin' Joe biden and the Demon-Rats really care in the least?!?!?!? Seriously, they will pay this off just to make it go away, since the thing they are best at is spending our tax dollars and running up the national debt!!!! It's not their money, so why should they care if they have to pay out another $15,000,000,000?!?!?!?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jethro bo 7/5/2021 4:21:43 PM (No. 836666)
Oh Hades, Joe doesn't even remember the Keystone pipeline. And never will. But the smell of some small girls hair back in '79, well Joe can describe that like it was yesterday.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Ribicon 7/5/2021 4:28:31 PM (No. 836672)
Hold Bidet voters and the junta responsible; Trump voters are exempt. Not unlike slabe reparations.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: earlybird 7/5/2021 4:35:24 PM (No. 836677)
What about the contractor(s) doing The Wall? That was another abrupt halt, with public knowledge that the money was already available. Biden cancelled The Wall and the money. He can’t do that!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: skacmar 7/5/2021 5:51:32 PM (No. 836739)
The Democrat Party, Sierra Club, and all of the other activist groups who opposed the pipeline can pay the money. They did not want it, they can pay up.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: downnout 7/5/2021 9:05:42 PM (No. 836885)
I wonder if biteme’s cancellation of the pipeline is causing some rips in the fabric of US/Canada relations..
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Reply 13 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623 7/6/2021 2:21:53 AM (No. 837000)
US means you and I, taxpayers. They should sue the demented one personally. We didn't approve any of it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mifla 7/7/2021 4:54:36 AM (No. 838145)
Don't send me the bill.
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