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| President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive orders that would move forward the construction of the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. | President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive orders that would move forward the construction of the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. |
| Mr Trump's orders would turn over decisions made by Barack Obama to halt the construction of both projects. Mr Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline in November 2015. A year later, the US Army Corps of Engineers denied the permit to build the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline amid months of protest outside the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. It would be a major blow to activists known as "water protectors" who have staged demonstrations blocking the construction for months. | |
| In a series of executive actions in his first full week in the White House, Mr Trump reversed some key policies of his predecessor, which includes the scrapping of Trans-Pacific trade agreement, an order to urge his administration to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, as well as the renewal of the "Global Gag Rule", that bars US aid going to international family planning NGOs that even mention abortion. | |
| Pushing through the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines would solidify Mr Trump's deregulation of the domestic oil industry. | |
| Press Secretary Sean Spicer earlier hinted that Mr Trump would allow the Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to proceed with the project to complete the 1,172-mile pipeline. | Press Secretary Sean Spicer earlier hinted that Mr Trump would allow the Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to proceed with the project to complete the 1,172-mile pipeline. |
| "I'm not going to get in front of the President's executive actions," Mr Spicer told reporters in the White House briefing room, "but I will tell you that areas like the Dakota and Keystone pipeline areas that we can increase jobs, increase economic grown, and tap into America's energy supply. That's something that he's been very clear about." | "I'm not going to get in front of the President's executive actions," Mr Spicer told reporters in the White House briefing room, "but I will tell you that areas like the Dakota and Keystone pipeline areas that we can increase jobs, increase economic grown, and tap into America's energy supply. That's something that he's been very clear about." |
| He added that Mr Trump is "very, very keen in making sure we maximise use of our natural resources to America's benefit". | He added that Mr Trump is "very, very keen in making sure we maximise use of our natural resources to America's benefit". |