Classic Stossel: Shutting Down Progress

America is blessed with abundant resources and cursed with boneheaded regulators.
Environmentalists collude with the EPA to block economic progress.
EPA bureaucrats thousands of miles away shut down a mine in Alaska to save fish two hundred miles downstream and fired hundreds of workers in the process.
Now, after a decade of delays, environmentalists have also shut down the Keystone SL pipeline.
A Classic Stossel from 2015.

[@mattdillon4398]

The irony is totally lost on the guy that brags about creating "green jobs" making widmills and electric cars while at the same time bragging about shutting down copper mines! These people have no self awareness.

[@LordOfNihil]

lets see you drive that tesla round these parts in winter. the batteries don't like the cold and people have frozen to death with their heaters on. lets see those solar panels work when they are buried in a foot or two of snow. i sure as hell don't want wind turbines blocking my view of the scenery. the only thing we got going for us is our natural resources.

[@weekendrebel1976]

@@LordOfNihil Teslas actually perform well in winter and can idwl with the new style heaters for days 😂

[@mikek191]

@@weekendrebel1976 no they don’t

[@willstikken5619]

@@weekendrebel1976 Are you talking winter in the continental us or winter in alaska, cause those things are very very different.

[@johnbaker7322]

Yep, and never mind the strip mines in China that provide him with the materials for those windmills and cars. Out of sight out of his mind.

[@par3me]

“We have enough oil in the United States”. Ouch, that didn’t age well for her or the progressives. 👍🏼🇺🇸

[@firestarterfiftyone566]

Saw my first station out of gas today. First of my life.

[@par3me]

@@firestarterfiftyone566 Good thing Joe had plans for all of this.

[@borisjankovici662]

@@par3me These ARE the plans. Intentionally drive up gas prices to make people travel less and to push them into electric cars.

[@louisnall3102]

It’s not about how much petrol is available it’s about how effectively it can be delivered.

[@davee2928]

Jane Kleeb is an embarrassment to Nebraska.

[@caleblauber1441]

I’m Native American from the Navajo Reservation. A number of my Navajo patients were counting on the Keystone pipeline to feed their families and keep them employed. One of my patients lost his job when Keystone was rejected & I saw him recently on the streets of Gallup NM intoxicated. What waste when there are lost jobs. Demented Biden & his minions are responsible for making my country weak & castrated of pride. Restart the Keystone. Let’s go Brandon!

[@djm5687]

By destroying jobs and creating more government dependence, leftists can act like they care about "the struggles of the Native Americans".

[@FredLarracuente]

I hear you brother! Is ironic, white stupid city liberals telling Native ppl what they can do with their own ancestral lands. Yet, we are the racist ones according to them, lol. They want us all to just SU and go collect welfare. SMH

[@artmallory970]

Perhaps the term '1st nations' might be more applicable today. I've read numerous sources saying 'Native mericans' originated in SE Asia, they followed the water buffalo through russia & into the US. Because looking at that first woman @2:00 & others in the vid, you could see they looked Chinese (or SE Asian) in ancestry/ethnicity...

[@nickauclair1477]

Most people don't realize how many pipelines already exist with little problems. Obviously the most efficient and much needed pipeline is the one they attack. It's always backwards. Maybe if people realized that it would save them money and make progress happen.

[@micahned]

@@artmallory970 Keep running on that euphemistic treadmill

[@Zetact_]

Stossel: "You guys are destroying jobs." Environmentalist: "But we also added worthless jobs!"

[@thepope2412]

Jobs that wouldn't exist without massive government subsidy and tax benefits

[@markf5735]

And they probably created more jobs in China than in America.

[@kyleeconrad]

...in other parts of the country far far away from here crippling the whole community....but who cares!?

[@dash4800]

we destroy millions of jobs and ad thousands, then say "look at all the jobs we made"

[@friendmaker9210]

Steal from the poor to give to the rich, as always!

[@zigbeegooblesnort125]

The "green movement" is a watermelon 🍉 : green on the outside but RED 🇨🇳 in the inside.

[@warriorgardener]

Damnit, I actually like watermelons..........

[@joeyp4099]

Great analogy.

[@hi14993]

Gonna have to remember that one

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

And too much watermelon can make one sick.

[@mikemcmikemcyeahok4977]

I hate all the seeds

[@mmatson5030]

"It is frustrating for me that someone that does not live here come here and dictate and tell us what we cannot do." Perfectly said.

[@Gherit1]

I think we need more of "The United States are" and not "The United States is." I do not want to dissolve the nation, but I do want states to have more power. Kick the federal regulators down to the state level. The federal level ONLY informs the state agencies.

[@MultiPetercool]

Sounds kind of like something Zalensky would say about Putin. 🤔

[@willstikken5619]

It's almost as if we've never heard of federalism isn't it. We might as well redefine federal to mean all powerful and all encompassing.

[@ebrakefml]

Because people who don't know anything about natural science will destroy their own living situation and then cry to the government to come fix it and point the finger at the same company they desperately wanted to come in and give them jobs and money. So the government steps in beforehand and reminds you that you're planning on doing some dumb shit.

[@willstikken5619]

@@ebrakefml People who don't know anything about economics tend to do the same things, usually form within government.

[@TravisBerthelot]

"Never underestimate the stupidity of a large group of stupid people", George Carlin

[@timyassa4343]

The ironic part is the people who protested the pipeline project left the area littered in trash when they left

[@thatguy9088]

Alaskan here. The amount of other people who lecture to those of us who live there on what we can and can't do with our own land and resources is mind boggling.

[@chrisg2971]

Crazy how New Hampshire is more free nowadays

[@thatguy9088]

@@chrisg2971 - Forgive me for asking but I am ignorant of what happened in New Hampshire. Can you elaborate?

[@traddad9172]

NGOs & Think tanks

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

I think you should take those people on a tour around Alaska, and educate them. Have them bring as much 'green' energy as they can, and tell them to use that to survive in a cabin for a week. ;)

[@thatguy9088]

@@nerdicusdorkum2923 - Green energy? In Alaska, when its -35F below zero? Ya lets see how long your batteries last. We have to plug in our cars in to power keep the engines warm or they will never start. About as close as you can get to green in the winter is the smell of a campfire.

[@jaewok5G]

"if volcanos were profitable, we would want to control them" Patrick Moore is right, these people hate human progress.

[@83licata]

And that statement doesn't answer the question, go figure with these so called environmentalist. They would rather rely on China, Russia, and Ukraine where the mining takes place for the components that make solar panels and wind turbines. Brought and paid by Commies!

[@outofcompliance1639]

It is always the people that have a lot already and nothing to lose if they stop other people from having stuff too.

[@dannygreen7473]

Where's the other 2 comments Screwtube?

[@jaewok5G]

@@dannygreen7473 they got lost in the ether?

[@outofcompliance1639]

@@dannygreen7473 YT often shadow bans comments they don't like. I can't say a certain color or my comment will not post. The first amendment is dead on YT.

[@Theioeio]

Those criticisms of the keystone pipeline, like "we have enough oil already", sure didn't age well.

[@letavoss5938]

If I were a competing nation wanting to weaken and devastate my biggest competitor, instead of funding a gigantic army I would fund any group that would destroy the infrastructure of my opponent. It would cost literally pennies on the dollar to accomplish this ,by paying lobbyists to handicap my enemies without losing a single one of my people or wasting a dime on defense spending.

[@tompain2751]

That, IS the Communist plan. Russia infiltrated the hippy culture, in the sixties. Karl Marx wrote it, in The Communist Manifesto! ... " The revolution, will not be won with bombs, and bullets... it will happen decade- by decade, generation-by-generation, from within"

[@letavoss5938]

@@tompain2751 It seems obvious our adversaries are extremely active in their goal to cripple our infrastructure through the control of our pay to play lobbying system.Our political prostitutes are so predictably in their pockets they’ll kill our economy to pander to their Marxist puppet masters.Politicians are historically for sale since they’re too stupid to know or care about the big picture or worry about the negative impacts of their intervention.

[@joblakelisbon]

Yup

[@miscanime]

That's some 4D chess right there.

[@ILovePancakes24]

Did you go to a real university? How did you come up with such a brilliant tactic?

[@charleneblack2792]

Have you ever met a poor environmentalist? Only those well off, who don't have to worry about surviving, living paycheck to paycheck, who really contribute nothing to society except taxes, care to stop growth and others livelihoods.

[@philipbutler2488]

Charlene, they have tax write offs so the chances they pay taxes is very small.

[@Skitdora2010]

The poor environmentalist are the stupid ones who want to see others struggle and hate other people succeeding. I have seen them. They have personality disorders and are potheads. They are on the far left. Some people want to watch the world burn. They don't mind watching their parents who they live with and get taken care of by, struggling.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

All these protestors are college kids who get their spending money from mommy daddy or celebrities who don't have to work for a living.

[@Embassy_of_Jupiter]

there's poor environmentalists, but they live off of welfare, a useless government job or someone in their family, so they don't have to worry about a thing

[@justacasualgamer1957]

the poor environmentalist are the voters of rich ones

[@kosrules1884]

I love how they complain about the Keystone pipeline and it causing more oil but unreality without that pipeline requires trucks to move that oil which and Requires more vehicles and more people and would produce more CO2

[@ApexImportExport]

They slice their nose off to spiderface like good complying puppets.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Not trucks, trains. Guess which hyper rich Democrat activist owns massive stock in railroads?

[@At0micMeltd0wn]

@@kdrapertrucker oof, who

[@lolwtnick4362]

oh noes!! heckin CO2. it's so dangerous like dihydrogen monoxide. i guess you slept thru BIO 101 and just believe the science.

[@albaxter8002]

@@At0micMeltd0wn Warren Buffet

[@Bullwinkle056]

Love the stand on how oil pollutes unless it comes from somewhere else.

[@kenyongray2615]

John is a master of the "Devil's advocate" method of interviewing. Using this, he gets people to talk and as you know, most people love to talk. I have been watching John since he was a local reporter more than 50 years ago in NYC on CBS. He is the same guy as he was back on. That is a good thing for people.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

I’m an electrician that has built both solar farms and wind farms. I distinctively recall using copper wire, and copper in the generator. I wonder where the green movement is sourcing their renewable copper.

[@TOAOM123]

China by african proxy

[@1pcfred]

They'll tell you hemp is the future. Hemp wires! Because all they do is smoke rope.

[@outofcompliance1639]

Fairy dust is coming, will resolve all our resource needs.

[@danielemmons3513]

You wasn't using copper wiring That new stuff is dry unicorn vomit impregnated with magic smoke.

[@bludeuce3855]

coming from china

[@MrJohnjahant]

This episode aged like a fine wine... Lady says "we have enough oil in the u.s."...she wasn't living in Joe Biden's America where gas is $4/gal

[@sweydert]

$4?? :) Here in CA it hovers around $7

[@jschapp77]

I can’t watch this without getting super angry.

[@dannygreen7473]

She, and everyone else like her, don't care how much gasoline costs. They want to destroy the American standard of living. Not for themselves of course, just for the little people. They're wealthy enough that higher prices don't hurt them. That's always been the case with marxism. Everyone suffers equally. Except, of course, the elite that are more equal than the rest of us. Make no mistake, environmental extremism is just another branch of marxism.

[@lizicadumitru9683]

Do we not have reserves of oil in the United States tomorrow? I "hear" we do. Why are we holding on to them? Or am I mistaken?

[@benjaminkesler5245]

​@@lizicadumitru9683 The oil reserves are for war or major emergencies. If you release all the oil reserves, it would lower the price a few cents for a few months, and then we would have nothing for emergencies.

[@GoatRuss]

Environmentalists have done a good job of focusing the public's eye on the production and use of the energy itself and throwing a giant rug over the carbon footprint that those "green" options actually have. Producing solar panels uses greenhouse gases, often burns Coal in it's production, and the silicon used in them have lead and other metals mixed into them to increase conductivity and makes them expensive and hard to recycle. Wind turbines still need things like copper and gold like Strossel pointed out. Electric cars are powered by electricity that is still largely obtained by burning Coal and Natural Gas. Environmentalism has changed from science backed and proven logic and reasoning to propaganda campaigns and smoke-and-mirrors tactics.

[@dannygreen7473]

Environmentalism is one arm of marxism. It's been this way for half a century. It's become much stronger in the past few decades as more generations of youth have been indoctrinated by our education system, entertainment industry, and social media.

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

A lot of people say this but I think it's misleading. Yes they have a larger initial carbon footprint but long term they release less carbon in to the atmosphere. If someone offered me a house for a one time payment of $5,000 or $1 per day every day for the rest of my life I'd choose the $5,000 option because long term it's going to cost less even if it's a bigger up front investment. Yes you're always going to need to dig up gold and other natural resources but that's just the cost of civilization and it can't be avoided no matter how we produce energy. Personally I've less concerned about the carbon footprint (we've already screwed the planet anyway, no stopping it now) and more concerned about the fact that fossil fuels are non-renewable. Estimates for how much oil earth has left varies but it doesn't take a scientist to realize that the earth is finite and therefore has a finite amount of fuels. Even if it's going to take a few hundred years to run out that's nothing on the human timescale. In my opinion we should be conserving as much of that as possible for our grandchildren. If we switch to green energy now there will be more oil left for our descendants. Oil is needed for plastics, there is no alternative, so why are we squandering our limited supply of oil on energy when energy can be produced in other ways? There is also helium to consider, helium is a byproduct of extracting gas and it is a limited resource. Helium is needed for much more than balloons, MRI machines need it to function among other medical devices. I don't think we should be using it all up now otherwise future people won't have access to many things we take for granted. I don't think it's immoral to keep using fossil fuels but it seems short sighted not to Switch to alternatives as quickly as possible so our natural resources will last as long as possible. It's going to be depleted eventually but that's not a good reason to use it all up now. Our lives are limited by time but that doesn't mean we should jump off a cliff just because death is inevitable.

[@GoatRuss]

@@vrclckd-zz3pv It is true as long as the aim is renewable source and not purely "green" sources. I was just pointing out that creating solar or wind has a large carbon upfront cost that everyone ignores. I don't mean to sound like I'm talking out my rear either, there are articles from nat Geo and other trustworthy publishing sources that cover the topic.

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

@@GoatRuss I know, and you're right. It's a fair argument but if you look at it from the green energy perspective the higher initial carbon cost is worth it because over the life time of the product it releases less carbon dioxide. They see it as a long term investment rather than a quick fix. For me personally it's more about making sure we have an unlimited source. I like the dream of anyone having the ability to create anything they want with 3D printers and energy they produced themselves. We're a long long way off from that (especially given the current state of 3D printers) and I doubt we'll get there in my lifetime but harnessing energy out of thin air seems like a good first step that we can take right now. Realistically though it will have to supplement nuclear power since we have no way to store that energy when it isn't sunny / windy.

[@24slipknot]

John is a true patriot for this country. I’m so glad he reports on/exposes the hypocrisies of the government.

[@charleneblack2792]

I'm from WV & grew up extremely poor because of environmental regulations. Around 80% were on government assistance. When Trump removed regulations, everyone had a job, ATVS, they fixed their shacks. The ONLY jobs in McDowell Co, WV are 2 grocery stores, 2 fast food restaurants, and a jail. Without the coal mines (which power our entire country) these people would be destitute, and it's currently on the downslope.

[@Foolish188]

The ONLY reason that there are ANY Coal Mines in the Southeastern US is because of horrendous SUBSIDIES!!! Back in the Seventies, Senator Byrd passed a law requiring that ALL coal plants put in very expensive scrubbers to take out the Sulphur and heavy metals that contaminate the Southeastern Coal deposits. ALL! Even the ones that used Wisconsin's much, much, much cleaner Coal. Why? To make your Coal competitive with Wisconsin's slightly more expensive Coal. Why buy clean coal when you are FORCED to pay for the expensive scrubbers anyway? If you want to stop living off of others, MOVE. Amazing how many of you think the way you do.

[@kellytolliver2390]

I'm from Mercer county brother and you hit the nail on the head y'all don't even have a hospital it's so sad that the richest county in WV in the 70/80 was killed completely by big government regs and forced to the poorest then drugs move in becouse people lose hope let us work

[@NisaNJames]

Same thing happened in Price, Utah. It's infuriating.

[@azmike3572]

You're correct, Charlene, about coal being on the downslope. But the coal industry can't change the market--the market has been shifting toward cheaper natural gas for years. Younger people in coal mining areas will probably need to get an education or training an another field, and later move out of the area, which is hard to do when their family, friends, and their faith is centered where they've grown up at.

[@elonmust7470]

Not to argue, but I've been a timber faller for almost 20 years all over the mountainous parts if America, & I've never been jobless for more than a few weeks. If you have worl ethic, you can find a good job in the logging woods.

[@NisaNJames]

This makes me so mad!!!!!! "This is our home. We don't want anything to happen to it." Amen!!!! She and people that live in her area should have the right to develop it the way they like. I'm so sick of this dumb environmentalists who think they know better, and the elites who think it has to be done their way. I'd LOVE to see the EPA abolished, along with the department of education and many other overreaching, overreacting government entities.

[@bethanndavis115]

Amen

[@dionrau5580]

All the fed alphabet agency tyrants!☠️💀🤡

[@mikemcmikemcyeahok4977]

These federal agencies have been running this country for quite some time, there is no oversight and no accountability, these people are not voted in and there really is no way to get rid of them. Or to drain the swamp. They have too much power

[@dannygreen7473]

These people don't care about you. In their eyes, humanity is just a parasite. They want to destroy the American standard of living. Not for themselves of course, just for the little people. They're wealthy enough that higher prices don't hurt them. That's always been the case with marxism. Everyone suffers equally. Except, of course, the elite that are more equal than the rest of us. Make no mistake, environmental extremism is just another branch of marxism.

[@peter455sd]

The CAFE is killing the auto industry

[@joep.7520]

This is 7 years ago and look where we are today. These zealots are beyond reasoning with. I actually have tears in my eyes for the poor folks who have been steam rolled by these holier than thou sobs.

[@paulrankin8578]

Watched a 3 minute ad on ear wax removal to support this great channel. I did not know undigested cotton buds are found in sea creatures. Yep, I watched the whole thing.

[@sexistspaghettios]

"We have enough oil in the United States" BIG OOF! That didn't age well lol

[@whizbang7130]

Is that why we were buying it from the Middle East, Russia and now Biden's going to ask Venezuela? Shipping oil in tankers across the ocean bad idea, pipeline is the safest way.

[@sexistspaghettios]

@@whizbang7130 I agree. He was talking about reserves wasn't he. Been a little bit since I watched this. We do in fact have plenty of oil that we should be drilling for. No doubt. We should be a major EXPORT of it.

[@nslouka90]

That woman acts like pipelines somehow create oil shows she knew nothing.

[@FredDurst00]

Definitely a classic. I like how Jane Klebb appears to be pretty well-off and is putting down people who want to make a living. Awfully selfish I'd say. Another one of the high-rise elites dictating how others should make a living.

[@trekkeruss]

Her entire life was built on oil. Unless she gives it all up, she is a hypocrite.

[@sampletext9426]

rich cannot survive without the poor

[@lolwtnick4362]

weird. because the pipeline would've created jobs for what? 3 yrs. then fired all of them and hired a few immigrants. while poisoning the water. only the 2 big cities "wanted" it. i say that because i went to the protests. NOBODY from in-state was supporting it there. okay boomer?

[@oldmanx1234]

@@sampletext9426 No the poor can't thrive without the rich.

[@13donstalos]

John Stossel did it all for the nooky

[@jschapp77]

“We have enough oil.” I wonder how she got to that building to be interviewed. Or how her clothes were delivered to the store she bought them from. Or how she got to that store. Or how she did anything else, ever, without oil. She probably lives off the land, makes her own clothes from animal skins and plants and doesn’t actually use any oil at all. Lives in a cave I would assume. That’s my guess.

[@freethebirds3578]

When these watermelons give up all petroleum products cold turkey, I'll consider listening to their opinions on climate. Since they never will, I never have to listen to them.

[@apromero911]

She probably drove her $135,000 Tesla that was charged using her home's $50,000 solar panel array... because you know, most families in America can afford to spend nearly $200k to "go green."

[@smc1942]

These are the self-appointed Elites that live in Mansions, fly in private jets, but want everyone else to live in teepees and ride bicycles. (Hello Al Gore!!!)

[@eastsiderider]

That mine company totally dropped the ball. They should’ve played the “taking jobs away from marginalized underrepresented indigenous people” card. That’s not right. But sadly it probably would’ve worked

[@floridaman5654]

Vote conservative. Vote of this democrat cesspool. Period. Thanks again for doing actual journalism Mr.Stossel. You sir are truly God sent.

[@microsoftpain]

voting red and blue won't fix anything. it has changed anything in more than a century. it goes far deeper than voting.

[@greenghost6416]

@Ben Dover RINOs arent conservative.

[@jackoff1826]

If only we could vote to put Term Limits on all politicians

[@nicolasceresoli9121]

@@jackoff1826 are you insane!!!! Why would politicians want to loose their power influence? Look at Pelosi for crying out loud, she has enough money to feed a village for a year, and not a care for the fact that her policies helped worsen the pandemic only so she can make Trump look bad, henceforth helping her guarantee another term into the House where Dems would had been seen as the favored party. You cant pry a devil of his schemes

[@johngenericlastname9781]

Cuckservatives are the other hand of democraps.

[@johnnyjohnson1326]

John Stossel has always been a TRUTH seeker. We need more John Stossel-s!!

[@RobertF-]

Imagine if the whole planet was populated with just nothing but billions of Stossels everywhere. It would probably be a pretty cool place. A very reasonable and sane Stosseltopia.

[@BrewsterMcBrewster]

Yes! And more Ron Paul-s too!

[@butteryfriedwizard2219]

@@RobertF- I already see it...every man, woman, and child....perfect mustaches.

[@johnnyjohnson1326]

@@BrewsterMcBrewster definitely!!!

[@Orpilorp]

Hi! Jane here. Wow! This is multi faceted. I think there is some anti tribal prejudice going on up there. The pipeline was rejuvenating that whole community! But actors who don't live there feel they know better. I have heard that windmill blades cannot be recycled. That doesn't sound good environmentally. Great questions Mr. Stossel.

[@sexyeur]

The awesome John Stossel and co., Thank you!

[@loganeayrs4088]

Ending keystone xl pipeline cost my poor Montana county 8 million dollars in new taxes.

[@Fin4L6are]

John Stossel is the journalist of the year, every year

[@vernpierce8836]

James O'Keefe and project veritas! 👍

[@TheChcam]

@@vernpierce8836 both can hold 1

[@SaljooqAltaf]

Can we just make it mandatory to watch Stossel videos in High Schools and Colleges. Seems like the most reasonable thing for education institutions to do

[@AkeemKN]

Heck ya

[@borisjankovici662]

Never going to happen. Schools are run by liberals, and liberals do not do facts and logic. They need sheep.

[@smc1942]

Those institutions are not about higher education. They haven't been in 30+ years. These days, they're nothing more than political Indoctrination Centers for the Leftist Agenda. Talking about something that should be shutdown!!!

[@darksideblues135]

Co2 is not a pollutant. It’s part of the live cycle.

[@bludeuce3855]

and C02 is plant food plants such as trees absorb C02 and turn it into breathable oxygen

[@NisaNJames]

Also, I appreciated how you got the guy from the NRDC to admit that he wants to close down anything that makes a profit. Like making a profit is the problem. "If volcanoes were corporations that operated for profit..." Does he hear himself? Does profit hurt the environment? Of course not!!!! I was listening to a group form the heartland institute talk about how we don't use nuclear power because it's not a profitable source of energy, but wind turbines and solar power sure are and they don't seem to care about the terrible environmental effects they cause!!!!! Yeah, a country can get carbon neutral by them, but it's a shell game because those things are being made using coal mines in third world countries. Do they care about that? Nope. The coal mines in the US are so much cleaner, but they don't really care about the environment. It's maddening!

[@adoe2305]

If volcanoes spewed the precious metals to make his windmills and electic cars he'd have a different story

[@dionrau5580]

Anything thing that makes a profit that doesn't benefit 10% big guy and his puppet Masters.... let's go Branden 💩 save the USA and vote out All the lying leftists commie democraps 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@djm5687]

In my opinion, the goal of many "environmentalists" is to *create a crisis* in order to introduce a *population control* agenda.

[@FredLarracuente]

Dems want EVERYONE collecting welfare. That;s the bottom line. Tax everything, regulate the shit out of what you can't tax, and ban everything you cant either tax or regulate. Finally, make ppl dependent on govt. How the remain in power, baffles me.

[@joshrubak9110]

went right to the comments section to see if anyone else caught that.

[@kkampy4052]

It was the greens who stopped the deadwood and brush clearing from around the utility towers in cali that lead to the wildfires. I would have asked Hannah if she wore makeup and used ANYTHING plastic or synthetic, all from petroleum.

[@moabfool]

When these projects are finally given the green light (no pun) the environmental groups that have mounted legal challenge after legal challenge should be 100% liable for the additional costs that the increased time incurred. Time is money on these projects, so the longer they can be obstructed the less profitable they become, and eventually the sunk costs are more than the corporations can bear. It's a defacto ban on the projects. I used to be an environmentalist, utterly opposed to these projects. Now I work in the energy sector. What changed? I learned that the earth isn't nearly as fragile as the green movement would lead us to believe. Happy Earth Day 2022 (sarcasm).

[@shawnlowry5834]

Every one of those who delays or stops progress should be held financially liable for their part.

[@bigblue2216]

She wears rings on her fingers and pearls on her wrist... Hypocrite?

[@DrewRycerz]

John honestly, followed you for so many years what would we do without you? You let us remember the meaning of sanity. I feel like there's a divide between common sense and everyone else.

[@janicecountess3351]

I agree!!

[@tanjoy0205]

Same ,except the KXL pipeline would only provide 30 long term jobs not 2000 over the long term (10 year plus) but I agree if it can be done safely ,build it !

[@savannah505]

@@tanjoy0205 A lot of jobs are that way, it takes hundreds or thousands of people to build the project and then a few to maintain it. Think of buildings, homes, skyscrapers, that's what building is. You make the car, it doesn't take hundreds to continue work on it, you make it and then move to the next car..........or project. Whether it's an assembly line or building on a piece of ground, most jobs are that way.

[@nunothedude]

Thats the left for you

[@Joe_for_real]

@@tanjoy0205 The 30 jobs estimate you put out is a completely made up number. The Alyeska Pipeline Services Company which services the Trans Alaska Pipeline System employs over 700 people and hundreds of additional contractors. Source: their website. That doesn't even take into account secondary and tertiary jobs that are created in service and manufacturing to support the pipeline.

[@EF-69]

"... Corporations that operate for profit..." Ah, there it is. Anti-corporatism disguised as environmentalism. We've given the EPA the power to regulate carbon dioxide, a substance vital to life on this planet, as a pollutant.

[@JuandelaCruz-zl1le]

I love this kind of journalism, he asks like people who opposes whoever he interviewed

[@careyfriesen6702]

Jane Kleeb is also the current chair of the NE Democrat Party and the founder of Bold Alliance. She’s way too green and always opposes good stuff like Stossel reported here. Thanks John for focusing on people, groups, and orgs that don’t have our country’s best interest at heart. They’re only after their own pocketbooks.

[@Gringosaurus]

Seeing an environmentalist complain about government interference is comical.

[@legendary6790]

It's funny how well this aged.

[@bryanweaver627]

Another great Stossel video!

[@RRW276]

The guy at 05:06 is right. It's frustrating when others who do not live in your area or state dictate what you can or can't do, what is right or not right, what is correct or politically incorrect.

[@TOAOM123]

Break up the union

[@oldmanx1234]

We traded the biggest salmon river in the world for electric power. I suppose trading the red salmon for gold is the same. Oh wait the electric power is still going after all this time.

[@badmonkey6051]

Just wait until the great reset... We will be dictated from Brussels what we can do in America.

[@kentdavis7438]

Somebody is not telling the truth. I guess some people want to get rid of all humans just to save mother earth. Thanks, John!

[@borisjankovici662]

That is the big picture. All of the greenie weenies think they will be invited to the party for being good little sheep. Electric cars aren't the end game.

[@ronilotnor-sp6vk]

I have always loved John Stossel's way of interviewing. Never bias, but on point.

[@maxscott3349]

I can respect a guy who knows that people are screwing him over for no reason and doesn't start vehemently disparaging them like they did to him.

[@jefferydebbink282]

Happy Earth Day Stossel! Keep fighting those horrible Green Tyrants!

[@donnyboon2896]

Yes, they are.

[@sweydert]

I remember a time when some government agencies at least seemed somewhat apolitical and mildly interested in something other than simply self-perpetuating and bloating themselves, promoting extreme agendas, accumulating political power, increasing budgets on the taxpayer dime, and gulping down the tears of those whose lives they damage, all the while thinking they know what's better for those whose lives they cripple than the people themselves.

[@xzqzq]

They have all become self-perpetuating monsters....

[@jasonw2696]

Excellent work Mr. Stossel exposing these low lives!

[@corrysmith]

You do great work John Stossell keep up the good work.

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

The climate change argument against the Keystone Pipeline makes no sense. The Canadian oil will still be pumped out of the ground, will still be sold and will still be burned somewhere. But without the pipeline, the oil needs to be transported in trucks and train cars. One of those trains carrying oil derailed a couple of years ago and caught fire which certainly wasn't good for the environment. Building the pipeline creates many jobs, is safer than other methods of transportation and doesn't require fuel for transportation. That last one is just a guess as I don't know if the pipeline would require energy for pumps or some such. But I am sure that it would require less than trucks and trains.

[@tompain2751]

You are correct. However, environmental activists don't care about facts. They just misinform, and play on the emotions of the uninformed, to gain power, and wealth for themselves.

[@swack24]

yea that train derailment happened in my town few miles away where I lived

[@ikenosis8160]

The largest gold and silver reserve in the world? I would just start digging with a shovel.

[@dr.floridaman4805]

largest untapped reserve, not the biggest one. just the biggest not started.

[@runeheadah]

They don't want the supply of gold or silver to increase because keeping it scarce is a big part of how they control the world's wealth.

[@jackoff1826]

They're getting rich all around the world in the name of "digging for precious metals for electric vehicles" while using our money to do so.

[@jenniferschade7553]

Something tells me if this land was owned by Bill Gates those regulations would crumble.

[@johnd.leonard9946]

Thank you John Stossel for doing what you do.

[@randyromano2854]

Regulation/government wasn't how this country was built, but it will be what destroys it. Great reporting John. Excellent content as usual.

[@dgoddard]

6:08 says everything you need to know about the EPA and any environmentalist group.

[@cartertran270]

As someone who lives in Alaska thank you John Stossel. Love Pebble P.S. I can’t wait I live in a world where I burn wood and shit just stay warm and I throw my shit out the window onto people in the street sounds fun.

[@jns2820]

Stossel is getting old... Very sad and concerned that great investigative journalists like him are becoming more rare by the day. His analysis and report is second to none.

[@popbumper]

I think most people watching this video today believe in environmental balance and accountability. But we are WAY out of balance in this country right now. Thanks for covering this very important topic.

[@Mapdotnowhere]

Stossel exposes Progressive fallacy

[@yukihirasouma4691]

Regressive*

[@bmanske1]

"Carbon solutions producing oil" - from around 9:30. She literally just implied that it is cleaner to take a lower grade of oil out of the ground half way around the world and use the dirtier oil to move vast quantities of this oil to some shipping port then load trucks with this oil to some producer. I live less than 20 miles from the pipeline. There is no way that the carbon foot print is smaller when buying from Russia, Iran or Kuwait.

[@id104335409]

It's all about power! You can't make the soldiers march to liberate a third world country from it's dictators and oil if they have an oil pump in their backyard. Must preserve nature! And then bomb the shit out of some distant country! Its all tiny cogs connected in a large machine you have to take 20 steps back to see in its entirety.

[@GoatRuss]

"We made jobs too, just switch to working in our green industries" They expect a high school educated blue-collar worker, who had a job and has trade skills, to go work in green energy environments, that they typically require a college education for. Kind of ridiculously short sighted of people to just tell someone to switch industries dismissively when the swap could require 2-4 years of college education that they would have to be able to afford and still put food on the table to do. Theoretically, there might be some blue-collar jobs to be had putting the wind turbines together; but not as many as a mining operation would have and not in that region of Alaska (that I can easily find at least). That's even IF they don't already just contract the build to some third party construction company anyways. If that's the case, I would struggle to think of any blue-collar work in green energy.

[@xzqzq]

I hope Mr. Stossel is with us for a long time. Amazing how smug & self-righteous these activists are.

[@volition51]

Some day we'll realize why the profit motive is a *good* thing, and that *no one* has the right to tell someone else what to do.

[@tompain2751]

The NRDC, is a non-profit. Donations, pay their salaries, to run it. hey don't call it "profit" but, they take an awful lot of money! They love power too!

[@benjaminRhodesLEGO]

I totally agree and no one has the right to tell me not to tell someone what to do if people see something thats hurting someone who hasent evolved speech yet there gonna try and speak up for them unfortunatly theres nothing we can really do about that but we can say they shouldnt do that which is totally fine i guess

[@volition51]

@@benjaminRhodesLEGO You have the right to *tell* someone what to do, just not the right to *force* them to do it, and you have the right to stick up for someone who can't defend themselves, if you want to. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺. But if you want to defend someone who hasn't evolved speech yet, why don't you also want to defend someone who *has* evolved speech, who is also being forced? How can the "rights" of a fetus supercede the right of an existing woman to control her own life? (I'm assuming you're talking about abortion, and if I'm wrong I apologize.)

[@volition51]

@@benjaminRhodesLEGO And sorry, I did use "tell" in my original comment, when I meant "force," in the sense that a law tells you what to do.

[@XXusernameunknownXX]

Hilarious... "we have enough oil in America". Lol.

[@olianims]

I didn't know Stossel interviewed comedians XD

[@2Dzz]

so glad you own the rights to these (or bought them). i LOVED watching your segments as a kid. great editing and information. KINO

[@mrwansabah]

Like always, great investigating journalism. We need more ppl like him.

[@Sauspreme]

"we have enough oil in this country." Did this chick think that pipelines *produce* oil? These activists are clueless.

[@fizzled95]

The first thing that popped in my head while watching this is, how to make voters vote Republican. But the reality is that Republicans will not get rid of the E.P.A.

[@mikemcmikemcyeahok4977]

Nobody can or will get rid of the EPA it’s part of the swamp overreaching and no oversight, they make the policies. Our government was not supposed to operate that way but it does. We can’t vote them out and they can’t be fired

[@B5152g]

The thing about a big mining hole is that it makes a really nice lake when it's mined out.. and if in the right location makes a nice resort/campground..

[@colormedubious4747]

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already built a house in the woods.

[@fayekephart848]

So putting oil trucks instead of pipes is safer? These people are nuts

[@kingwr12]

And yet we continue to use oil. They just move it from North Dakota and Canada by truck and train, which is far more dangerous and environmentally impactful. We just ship our wealth to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela so they can ship oil back to us in tanker ships. I'm sure that woman got into her gas powered car and drove to her gas heated home after the interview.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

"...how much time do you need for YOUR progress?" - James Baldwin And I am still asking the same question in 2022.

[@v-town1980]

As Peter Gabriel once sang (while still in Genesis), "I'd rather trust a country man than a town man."

[@guitarlessonswith4480]

Take a look at the waste problem wind turbine blades are creating. Can't believe that guy even mention wind power. Ignorance at its finest.

[@joelellis7035]

from what I understand, this is a re-upload of old content. Basically, they didn't have the hindsight of how dirty wind power actually is.

[@guitarlessonswith4480]

@@joelellis7035 Good point 👍 Now that you mention it, it does look like older content. We are capable of projecting into the future though. Sure wish we'd start using that ability more often.

[@CyndiGabe]

Well done John!!

[@Ham_on_Rye]

For once I’d like to see some respect and recognition of Stossel’s immense generational reach from someone he’s interviewing. Like, “oh wait what side of this are you on John?! Oh you’re FOR the mine..oh yah we’ve already reconsidered our stance and are in the process of reversing our position..when’s this air? Would you like an EPA t-shirt it’s a super soft tri-blend?”

[@teresawilliams6177]

Great news coverage! Thanks for your hard work!

[@oldtimer427]

Love Stossel ! Rock on brother!

[@robertperillo8738]

This is ridiculous. Hire an army to guard the mine and go about your business without their permission. It’s about time we start taking our country back by force.

[@thedreysepodcasttv4852]

Man, are you trying to pull a Congo?

[@robertperillo8738]

@@thedreysepodcasttv4852 whatever it takes. Too long we’ve been laying down to tyranny. This country is pathetic

[@Jesusprayerwarriorbw]

ABOLISH THE EPA, IRS, AFT, CDC, FDA, DC

[@whaleshrimp111]

Great work John Stossel! Please keep bringing reality to the public!

[@crame3396]

Muy buen reportaje John, muchas gracias!

[@AshEndDust]

Real question is who do these groups work for and who finances them.

[@pureblood2020]

Mr. Stossel, I really enjoy your work. Please keep it up!

[@Fort_Sed]

I'm happy all my life in the NW we have avoided the pipeline mess. Our mining heritage already did the work of making the bottom of the lakes and rivers silver linings, and glassfuls of lead.

[@jps8941]

As always John your videos are insightful and informative. Another case of privileged few in America deciding how the rest of the America and the world lives and survive. Most of these activists are hypocrites are they totally green are there kids, do they force their own families to be totally green. I mean everything in their daily lives are green I doubt it. Those super privileged actors do they demand that their movies ,they make be totally green or is it only the Green in the money that makes there decision.

[@kdalecreations1597]

Be good stewards of the Earth and keep on mining responsibly

[@tgeep87]

you do a great job being neutral and always getting the point and story

[@DISASTROPHOLOGY]

I resides in AK between 2008 and 2013. I remember this pebble creek issue being in the news. This is the part of my life I began caring about politics. It’s interesting to watch the aftermath 10 years later of an issue I barely cared about...and the way these people’s lives are being affected? This is sad.

[@kirstenirwin9084]

I love nature. I did a program with my nature center when I was a kid and had a lot of fun learning. However, the environmentalist programs and activists have long since gotten too big for their britches. I watched a video some months back that went into the labor intensive process to break down plastic in the ocean into usable material and to not just blindly believe the "100% Ocean Bound Plastic" you see on cleaning bottles at the store.

[@claycountykillers]

People will destroy the Earth by trying to save it.

[@1pcfred]

The Earth is fairly durable. Not much can destroy it. People will destroy other people in the name of protecting the Earth though.

[@WaynJul]

I worked on the Keystone pipe line and now it's dead in the water. Millions of dollars of equipment rusting away.

[@ksztyrix]

Imagine thinking you live in "free country" when you have to ask government to open mine