Researcher: (Keystone XL) Pipeline jobs claim overstated

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — A researcher from Cornell University told state lawmakers Tuesday that TransCanada has exaggerated the number of jobs its Keystone XL pipeline will create.

Lara Skinner of the Cornell Global Labor Institute said she was unable to verify TransCanada's advertised claims that 20,000 direct construction and manufacturing jobs would be created by the 1,700-mile-long pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada's tar-sands region to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

Skinner said utilizing figures the company submitted to the State Department suggests that 2,500 to 4,600 jobs would be created during the two years of construction.

And there are indications that TransCanada will obtain half of its 36-inch pipe from overseas, thus calling into doubt the 7,000 manufacturing jobs the project will create.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20111109/NEWS01/711099916#researcher-pipeline-jobs-claim-overstated

[Celefin]

1. Say it ain't so!

The missing ~15000 jobs will be cleanup workers, after the outsourced, underpaid workers using cheap, overseas pipe material are somehow unable to build a pipeline that can be operated safely for any length of time. There. Problem solved.

There's a reason they just postponed the (public) decision on this project until after the election. Cowards.

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[Hotler]

3. The pipeline is going through. The pipes are being delivered...

as we speak. The Whitehouse has already signed off. They are just delaying the bad news. There will be very few jobs and those jobs will be at scab wages. I have no hope. I see no future.