Keystone Pipeline Decision Delayed Again

"There are 42,000 jobs, $20 billion in economic activity "

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... cassi.html

Those 35 guys must put in a lot of ot.

" Members of the union worked 5.7 million hours on those projects in 2012, up from 400,000 hours in 2008, the AP reported."

http://freebeacon.com/issues/union-hamm ... -xl-delay/

BlazerBob wrote: Those 35 guys must put in a lot of ot.

" Members of the union worked 5.7 million hours on those projects in 2012, up from 400,000 hours in 2008, the AP reported."

http://freebeacon.com/issues/union-hamm ... -xl-delay/

Facts are facts, right? :HighFive:

Really Bob? Are you really claiming that Keystone XL will create 42,000 permanent jobs? Or are the facts actually that only 35 permanent jobs will be created, along with about 5000 temporary jobs over less than two years by transient workers building the project?

Hmm?

Keystone will NOT lower gas prices

A complaint sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in January accused TransCanada of using “false or misleading statements about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline,” and “consistently used public statements and information it knows are false in a concerted effort to secure permitting approval of Keystone XL from the U.S. government” with claims the pipeline will create American jobs “at a rate that is 67 times higher than job creation totals given by the company to Canadian officials for the Canadian portion of the pipeline.” TransCanada admits the pipeline’s construction will create at best, a few thousand temporary jobs, and that the Canadian oil will be sold to China and Europe on the foreign market.

TransCanada also reported that instead of reducing fuel prices for Americans, it will increase them because the pipeline will drain off oil reserves as it passes over the Ogallala Aquifer that supplies drinking water to 2 million Americans and is the primary source of groundwater for 20% of America’s agriculture. The potential for environmental disaster is immense because another TransCanada pipeline spilled 12 times in one year, and two years ago in Michigan the Lakehead pipeline system ruptured; crews are still cleaning up the mess because instead of floating, tar sand oil sinks. Those are indisputable facts about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and still, Boehner continues assailing the President for not granting an immediate permit.

:Snooze

Oh, and that lie about "creating jobs"...

"Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator," Obama said, according to the newspaper.

"There is no evidence that that's true. The most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline, which might take a year or two, and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people."

And Fred goes: [whrrrr]-[click]

FACTS are a b*tch, aren't they, Fred?





#tooinformedtovoterepublican

Luckily the northern great plain States have much lower unemployment rates than the rest of the nation due to those " temporary" drilling jobs.

Something the Dog Said wrote: Really Bob? Are you really claiming that Keystone XL will create 42,000 permanent jobs? Or are the facts actually that only 35 permanent jobs will be created, along with about 5000 temporary jobs over less than two years by transient workers building the project?

Hmm?

No Dog, I am not. I am just laughing at you. The bigger the lies the less believable they are.

I am sure that the labor unions and the d politicians up for election are attacking Obama because they are concerned about temporary transient jobs.

Thou villainous idle-headed jolt-head!! Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

:rofllol

Forsooth!

So because they are temporary jobs they aren't worthy? In construction, all jobs are temporary.
One of the most important jobs I took out of college was a temporary job with Zimmer, it was for only 18 months, but I learned a lot and developed a number of contacts that have helped me with later jobs.

If temporary is so bad, why give out unemployment benefits? They are only temporary after all, right? 99 weeks? Why bother, right?