Duringan off - photographic camera conversation with the press aboard Air Force One , President Trump has declared that he O.K. the Keystone and Dakota pipelines tocompete with Russia . This is presumably an attempt to distance himself from the accusations ofcollusion   with the Russian governmentduring his presidential political campaign .

“ The first affair I signed , the first day , was the Keystone Pipeline . That first was the Keystone and the Dakota Access Pipeline – also Dakota Access . Now , what does that mean ? Dakota Access takes it to the Pacific . Who do they contend with ? Russia , ” Trumpclaimed .

“ First day . It ’s also 48,000 jobs between both of them . The other one I sign , that was the Keystone . That was idle . That was dead for two year . It was never going to happen . I animate it on day one . You screw , you ’ll contain , please check it . I have to be exactly precise . They ’ll say , oh I was n’t totally accurate . But that goes to the Gulf , right ? Competes with Russia . ”

Since Trump ask us to determine it , let ’s do it .

First of all , the executive order was signedfour daysafter he took federal agency . Also , the claim of 48,000 job seems to have get along out of thin atmosphere . The two company developing and operating the pipelines , Dakota Access LLC and TransCanada , claimedthe operation will have between 12,000 and 26,000 job , respectively . AUS state department reportstates that all but 50 positions in the Keystone Pipeline would be temporary . Thenumber is estimatedat 40 for the Dakota Access Pipeline .

“ I ’m a tremendous fracker , coal , natural gas , substitute energy , wind –   everything , right ? ” Trump continued . “ But I ’m go to produce much much more muscularity than anyone else who was ever be given for office . Ever . We ’re going to have clean coal , and Hillary was n’t . ”

People familiar with Ronald D. Moore’sBattlestar Galacticawill credibly harmonise that Trump is a tremendous fracker [ or stick in your own trick here ] . Also in that statement , we should express that it ’s alternativeenergy . But we ’re just being finicky .

alternatively , let ’s focus on the clamorous Trygve Halvden Lie in the program line . There is no such thing as " clean-living ember " . This terminus has been hawk by clime variety deniers for a few years with not a single ounce of evidence . Coal is the opponent of sporty , it ’s the mostcarbon - fertile fogey fuelthere is , actually , producing nearly twice as much carbon paper dioxide during burning as natural accelerator pedal .