I don’t know where people come up with the low number of jobs this will provide. It is not just pipeline jobs, there are also jobs in the power companies that supply power to the pump stations, contractors that will continue to be employed for many years to come working on infrastructure related to the pipeline, etc. And there is also millions of gallons of this “dirty” Canadian oil already coming to US refineries right now. It is not being exported from the US. Every argument Obama uses against this pipeline is a complete lie.
YOu mean those 35 permanent jobs actually provided by the pipeline?
We had a gas pipeline come through, bunch of folks built up business to handle all the construction workers, then they all went bankrupt six months after completion of the line when all those temporary workers left.
dtroutma all construction jobs are temp dear beau you have 100 people only 85 have jobs unemployment is 15% so you declare 10 non employed do not count so you have 90 people and 5.55% unemployment [ lies ’dam lies ’ statistics ]
Bok is a dunderhead regarding the economic benefits of the Keytone pipeline. Also, apparently he hasn’t noticed the global and domestic oil prices which make tar sand oil too expensive to mine and extract.
louieglutz over 8 years ago
30, here, 30 there, pretty soon you’re talking major job loss…
sorry, everett.
17bsch over 8 years ago
I don’t know where people come up with the low number of jobs this will provide. It is not just pipeline jobs, there are also jobs in the power companies that supply power to the pump stations, contractors that will continue to be employed for many years to come working on infrastructure related to the pipeline, etc. And there is also millions of gallons of this “dirty” Canadian oil already coming to US refineries right now. It is not being exported from the US. Every argument Obama uses against this pipeline is a complete lie.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 8 years ago
Sure, and after that you also got the jobs having to clean up the enviroment afterwards.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
YOu mean those 35 permanent jobs actually provided by the pipeline?
We had a gas pipeline come through, bunch of folks built up business to handle all the construction workers, then they all went bankrupt six months after completion of the line when all those temporary workers left.
Pipeline jobs are a pig in a poke, period.
oneoldhat over 8 years ago
dtroutma all construction jobs are temp dear beau you have 100 people only 85 have jobs unemployment is 15% so you declare 10 non employed do not count so you have 90 people and 5.55% unemployment [ lies ’dam lies ’ statistics ]
DrDon1 over 8 years ago
Bok is a dunderhead regarding the economic benefits of the Keytone pipeline. Also, apparently he hasn’t noticed the global and domestic oil prices which make tar sand oil too expensive to mine and extract.
Gypsy8 over 8 years ago
Obama usually does the right thing. Not this time. A purely political decision in a pander to his base.