{"id":183463,"date":"2013-02-21T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/21\/how-many-jobs-does-the-keystone-pipeline-create\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T01:43:00","slug":"how-many-jobs-does-the-keystone-pipeline-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/21\/how-many-jobs-does-the-keystone-pipeline-create\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Jobs Does the Keystone Pipeline Create?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-13\/keystone-s-thousands-of-jobs-fall-to-20-when-pipeline-opens-1-.html\">Only 20<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Call me a political Little Orphan Annie, but I think that if you have to lie this much, it&#8217;s probably not a good idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">TransCanada Corp. (TRP)\u2019s Keystone XL oil pipeline, heralded by supporters as a major job creator, will add few permanent positions once the $7 billion project is built.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The number of people needed to operate and maintain the 1,661-mile (2,673-kilometer) pipeline may be as few as 20, according to the U.S. State Department, or as many as a few hundred, according to TransCanada.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t see a big jobs impact,\u201d Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, said in an interview. \u201cIt gets the oil into refineries that already exist. It\u2019s like replacing a bridge on the highway.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The debate in Washington has focused on short-term construction and manufacturing jobs, rather than on permanent ones. Estimates for construction and manufacturing employment range from 2,500 to 20,000, depending on assumptions of how much of the project\u2019s budget will be spent in the U.S. The company says some of the steel will be made in Canada and India.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">TransCanada Vice President Robert Jones said permanent jobs would be \u201cin the hundreds, certainly not in the thousands,\u201d in a Nov. 11 interview on CNN.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Calgary-based TransCanada says construction will create 20,000 \u201cnew, real U.S. jobs.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a surprise, TransCanada is a bunch of lying sacks of sh%$.<\/p>\n<p>And the bitumen that they will be extracting is an ecological disaster as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 20. Call me a political Little Orphan Annie, but I think that if you have to lie this much, it&#8217;s probably not a good idea: TransCanada Corp. (TRP)\u2019s Keystone XL oil pipeline, heralded by supporters as a major job creator, will add few permanent positions once the $7 billion project is built.The number of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,975,1135,1079,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-employment","category-energy","category-environment","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}