Trump Promise Broken, Keystone Pipeline Will Use Foreign Steel
Yet another promise Trump couldn’t keep. A White House spokeswoman said that the “Buy American” rules in Trump’s executive order for pipelines won’t apply to the Keystone Pipeline.
“The way that the Executive Order is written is actually … specific to new pipelines or those that are being repaired,” the spokeswoman said. “Since [Keystone] is already currently under construction … it was hard to go back. Everything moving forward would be all under that executive order.”
According to CNN Money, TransCanada has already agreed that half the pipeline will use steel from India-based steelmaker, Welspun and the rest will be imported from Canada and Italy. TransCanada has already purchased about $800 million worth of other goods from U.S. manufacturers.
However, Trump continues to vow that only steel from American steelmakers could be used on Keystone as well as other U.S. oil pipelines. He said so the day he signed the Executive Order, as well as in his address to Congress this week.
