A pipeline worker said President Biden’s administration has “taken” his livelihood from him through environmental policies that canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
“I’m 45 years old. This is all I know how to do. I spent my whole life learning this craft and this skill, and it’s not as easy as somebody might think. Or people might think to just start all over at 45 years old. I mean, I guess I could possibly get a job as a greeter at Walmart. I don’t know,” Jason Jernigan, a third-generation oil and gas worker who was hired to work on Keystone XL, said on Fox News on Monday.
Jernigan was also asked about special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry’s comment suggesting that people laid off in the fossil fuel industry should find jobs making solar panels.
“I haven’t been offered a job in the solar panel industry, and I haven’t been sent an application or a phone number or anything. I don’t know what I have to do to do the work and the groundwork and everything it takes to get there,” he responded.
“And secondly, I mean, I’ve done the research. If I went to work for a solar panel right now, I would be taking a $35-an-hour pay cut and lose my benefits and retirement,” he added.
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Biden announced on his first day in office that he was revoking a key permit to the Keystone XL pipeline, which cost thousands of people their jobs.
