It is going to be the primary time in 46 years {that a} Montana pipeline firm has to put off 40-50 staff. That was the road that stood out to me, after Governor Greg Gianforte (R-MT) toured Phillips and Valley Counties in Northeastern Montana on Friday. The governor noticed firsthand the impacts of President Biden’s job-killing resolution to shutdown the Keystone XL pipeline.
Arising on Wednesday’s Montana Talks statewide radio present, we’ll chat with the governor about his journey, and what he heard on the bottom from enterprise, schooling, and different group leaders.
Montana Talks is broadcast all throughout our nice state. Pay attention stay with the governor shortly after 9 a.m. on the next stations:
Billings: Newstalk 95.5 and 95.1 FM, 970 AM KBUL
Bozeman: 1450 KMMS
Livingston: 1340 KPRK
Missoula: AM930 and 99.7 FM KMPT
Kalispell: 880AM and 107.9 FM KJJR
Glendive: 1400AM and 103.1FM KXGN
Forsyth: KIKC 1250 AM, 94.5FM
Lewistown: KQPZ 95.9 FM
Wolf Level: 92.7FM KVCK
Fort Peck: 107.1FM KVCK
Shelby: 1150AM KSEN
Nice Falls: 102.7FM KINX
Helena: 95.9FM KCAP
Butte: 1370 AM and 94.7 FM KXTL
Scobey: 95.7FM KCGM
Plentywood: 100.1FM KATQ
Prior Story from Feb. 21, 2021: GIANFORTE SEES BIDEN’S JOB KILLING AGENDA FIRSTHAND
Montana’s governor received to see the job-killing impacts of President Biden’s agenda firsthand. Governor Greg Gianforte toured a number of areas impacted by Biden’s resolution to shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, and the labor union jobs that went with it.
“This yr, for the primary time in 46 years, we’ll in all probability lay off 40-50 individuals,” mentioned Jorgensen. “You may drive from right here to the border to Nebraska and cease at each little city alongside the way in which and you’ll find help for this undertaking right through. It’s devastating.”
That is what Marty Jorgenson, the president of Barnard Pipeline, instructed the governor through the assembly, according to a report feature by KTVQ-TV.
In accordance with a press release launched after the tour, Gov. Gianforte hosted a roundtable dialogue with a number of group leaders in Phillips and Valley Counties:
We heard from college directors and fogeys, who had anticipated elevated revenues to recruit and pay academics to coach their youngsters. We heard from officers with electrical cooperatives, who had plans to construct dozens of miles of transmission traces to the pipeline – bringing electrical energy to a few of the area’s most rural areas. We heard from the native chamber of commerce, about how the undertaking would have benefited their native companies, created good-paying Montana jobs, and boosted our financial system.
The undertaking was anticipated to usher in $50-100 million in income to Montana counties annually.
