Call/write your so-called representatives in the Congress NOW! This pipeline will destroy a large swath of our environment but will create no more than perhaps 50 PERMANENT jobs. Barrasso left out all the caveats that the State Department laid out regarding how many jobs Keystone XL would create. The State Department did not say the Keystone XL pipeline would create 42,000 new jobs. Instead, it said the project would “support” 42,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs, 99 percent of which would be temporary, not lasting more than the two years it would take to construct. Once the project is completed, the State Department estimates that the pipeline would only create 35 full-time jobs, and 15 temporary contractors. The company behind the project, TransCanada, has a different estimate, which is still not much closer to the 42,000 figure. The company has estimated that the pipeline would create no more than 2,500 to 4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:29:22 +0000
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