Fired Keystone Pipeline Worker: My Crisis Is Not Climate but Putting Food on the Table
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and its subcommittee on the environment held a hearing on Thursday to grill the CEOs of top U.S. fossil fuel companies, calling it a historic event, to call out the businesses for lying to the American people about the existential threat of climate change.
But the one Republican witness on the panel perhaps best summed up what is at stake when it comes to the left’s efforts to make climate change more important than American workers and the nation’s economy.
Neal Crabtree is a welder who has spent his career working on oil and gas pipelines.
“It’s definitely not something that I’m proud of, but I may have been the first casualty of the Build Back Better plan,” Crabtree said. “Three hours after President Biden’s inauguration, I lost my job on the construction of the Keystone pipeline.”
“To sum this up, the administration is having a direct negative impact on energy prices in this country,” Crabtree said. “They’re having an impact on my ability to find work right now.”
“My crisis right now isn’t the climate,” Crabtree said. “My crisis is the mortgage payments I have due every month. It’s the food I need to put on my table and it’s the healthcare I need to provide to my family.” – READ MORE
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