With the stroke of a pen, a year ago President Joe Biden gave Philip, South Datkota, a death sentence.

Writer Teny Sahakian of Fox News outlined how Biden’s executive order to kill the Keystone XL pipeline destroyed the future potential of this small town in rural South Dakota.

“We are the collateral damage,” West Central Electric Cooperative CEO Jeff Birkeland told Fox News. “Our one chance in a lifetime to get some opportunity, some growth, to lower our rates for our members, and he took it away from us.”

Biden revoked the building permit for the 1,200-mile pipeline that brought the multi-billion-dollar project to a crashing halt. Biden said pipelines hurt the climate. He is on a campaign to end the use of coal, oil and natural gas and force Americans to depend on solar power, wind power, hydroelectric and other alternate energy sources that are less plentiful, less reliable and more expensive.

“The Keystone XL pipeline disserves the U.S. national interest,” Biden said in the order.

Obama had previously halted the pipeline in 2015 and Trump revived it in 2017.

“All this money—Gone,” Birkeland said. “All this material was created for one specific project – designed, engineered – and now it’s just worthless, it’s salvage value.”

Philip, with a population of 779, was set to be a boom town in an area where industry is scarce. Biden took that all away.

If you wonder why Biden is the most unpopular president in modern times, take a look at the pipeline. His attempts to kill the American energy industry are hurting a lot of people.