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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCornell University Study- Keystone Pipeline will cost jobs
Cornell GLIs new report, Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of Keystone XL (pdf) examines the job impacts of TransCanada Corportation's Keystone XL Pipeline, the proposed pipeline that would transport tar sands oil almost 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. The report reviews claims made by TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute that the project will create 20,000 construction and manufacturing and 119,000 (direct, indirect and induced) jobs.
The report concludes that the job estimates put forward by TransCanada are unsubstantiated and the project will not only create fewer jobs than industry states, but that the project could actually kill more jobs than it creates. Main findings include:
The project budget that has a direct impact on U.S. employment is between $3 and $4 billion or about half of what industry claims.
50% or more of the steel pipe, the main material input used for Keystone XL, will be manufactured outside of the U.S.
Jobs will be temporary and between 85-90% of the people hired to do the work will be non-local or from out of state.
Job losses would be caused by additional fuel costs in the Midwest, pipeline spills, pollution and the rising costs of climate change. Even one year of fuel price increases as a result of Keystone XL could cancel out some or all of the jobs created by the project.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/Keystonexl.html
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts):kick:
tabatha
(18,795 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)24 hours a day, seven days a week on every news outlet...
onethatcares
(16,166 posts)some scientists from Cornell University or the American Petroleum Institute and Trans Canada ? It's not like API and TC would have any kind of stake in this matter, they are only concerned with finding us a cheaper way to fill our tanks with fossil fuels
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)writer discussing the pipeline. He really tried to come across as "I'm not taking sides" Nd unbiased ( a good PR ploy) but he was as slick as one coached could be. He kept going on about how it was beneficial to both countries. Then a guy calls in stating that the oil was going to be shipped overseas and what benefit did it have for us. The guy completely ignored the question and went on about how we might use the oil (lie) and never mentioned how it would benefit us. What really annoyed me was that the NPR guy never challenged him.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,349 posts)Thanks for the thread, Ichingcarpenter.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I believe Fox news even said Keystone will create jobs.
Surely they wouldn't talk out of their asses and lie about it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... discuss the issue.
That is they had an American pro-pipeline guest and a Canadian pro-pipeline guest.
It was disgusting.