Clean energy, pipelines and politics – Estes Park Trail-Gazette

In our reflections on infrastructure, energy, buildings, sustainability, transportation, and climate, we attempt to throw daylight on information which in the past few years has been rife with dog-whistles, gaslighting, fear mongering and “alternate facts”. For example, no facts support claims that canceling the Keystone Pipeline cost thousands of long-term American jobs. The facts show that the number of permanent jobs the pipeline would have created would number less than 50. We wrote about this in the Trail Gazette January 29, 2021.(https://www.eptrail.com/2022/03/09/together-we-build-cancelling-keystone-xl-pipeline-makes-good-business-sense/) Yesterday in her daily Letters from an American newsletter, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the current oil and gas situation with historical accuracy, including Keystone details of which we were previously unaware. For…

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