Keystone XL Pipeline Will Create Few Jobs

Industry Studies Are Misleading; Project May Kill More Jobs Than It Creates.

It is important to take a realistic and honest look at the jobs claims. First, always read the fine print. Yes, TransCanada has a fine print disclaimer about their “forward looking information” as it directly relates to any economic benefits? This can be found on their website. Below is an excerpt:

“This news release may contain certain information that is forward looking and is subject to important risks and uncertainties.” “All forward-looking statements reflect TransCanada’s beliefs and assumptions based on information available at the time the statements were made. Actual results or events may differ from those predicted in these forward-looking statements.”

“Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this news release or otherwise, and to not use future-oriented information or financial outlooks for anything other than their intended purpose. TransCanada undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.”

Currently, TransCanada is facing a potential inquiry into whether it deliberately deceived investors by inflating the job-creation potential of the Keystone XL project. A complaint has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over TransCanada’s “false or misleading statements about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.”

Specifically, TransCanada has asserted that each mile of KXL pipeline constructed in the U.S. would 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.

Based off information provided by TransCanada, The State Department’s best case scenario for temporary jobs in the U.S. is only 5,000 to 6,000; – not the 20,000 that industry and industry backed politicians claim.

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.

In a Nov. 11 interview on CNN, TransCanada Vice President Robert Jones said permanent jobs would be “in the hundreds, certainly not in the thousands.” In addition, TransCanada’s CEO acknowledges the number of temporary construction jobs to be 6,500.

Independent studies have been conducted which put the numbers at as few as 50 permanent jobs and as few as 2,500 to 4,650 total temporary construction jobs for two years and many of those jobs already exist within the company but yet are still counted in the total. These reports are more consistent with actual job creation numbers from the current operational Keystone project.

 

Cornell Global Labor Institute’s 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.

 

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/Keystonexl.html

 

 

 

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To my Congressman, Jeb Hensarling, – You Have Lied to US.

Congressman Hensarling’s reckless actions, intentional or not, are literally putting the lives of Americans at risk.

1-19-12

Mr. Hensarling,

You have supported the fact that TransCanada, a foreign company, has come in to your area and sued Americans and used eminent domain to seize our land rights for a project (Keystone XL) that does not serve public use requirements and does not have the necessary permit to even stick a shovel in the ground. To top it all off, that permit was denied yesterday and yet, on the same day, you still had the nerve to come out in support of this dangerous, unregulated, foreign special interest project simply as a tool to attack your political opponent and not for any valid reason.

Mr. Hensarling, it is time for your to stop playing this political game with our lives and water supplies. It is time for the truth, and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.

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Keystone XL – Decision to do what exactly?

Topic: Obama denies Keystone XL permit on 1-18-12

What does the language in the administrations decision to deny the permit actually say? It’s a bit like a puzzle, just put the piece’s together and tell me what you see.

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Kestone XL Decision expected Today, 1-18-12

It has been announced that President Obama is expected to have a decision on Keystone XL approval in about an hour. Stay tuned for an update.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope he denies the project based on national interest, as he should.

Either way this goes, it will not be over for me and I have serious concerns if the decision is not based on national interest.

If it is not based on national interest, then here is how it could go.

TransCanada wants the Cushing to Texas phase to be completed no matter what. However, as I understand it- by law, they can not break up this project to do that. Therefore, if the permit is rejected for them (by Obama) then they could go ahead and do that phase as a separate project without presidential approval and without a thorough environmental review, etc.

Then, TransCanada can reapply for the Keystone XL phase 4, that would run through Nebraska, after the election. They do not need it before then anyway, as I am sure they would like it, but really do not need it in order to stay on schedule because they were going to build phase 3(Cushing to Texas) first anyway.

Again, let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope he does the right thing and doesn’t punt again.

Thanks for your time,

David Daniel

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Keystone XL Community Awareness Videos

STOP has just released four new community awareness videos that provide information and documentation about various issues surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline. Each video, or segment, covers a different topic.

We understand how difficult it is for people to find the time to sit down and read pages and pages of material and we hope this method of communication will help people in their effort to make an informed decision.

We will post new segments as soon as we can.

Thank you for your time,

David Daniel

Transcripts of each segment can be provided upon request. Contact David Daniel at:

 

ddaniel@stoptarsands.org

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Keystone XL – export pipeline

A review of documentation and information showing that Keystone XL is an export pipeline and is not in our national interest.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGzfSggOwA&context=C375fd4aADOEgsToPDskLpSV3BO4fgNzjcK-8uNdSQ

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Keystone XL – unsafe and risky

Keystone XL would be an imminent threat to life, property and the environment. Therefore, it is far too dangerous to be built.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6990VwDpqg&context=C3839783ADOEgsToPDskLrOTapQOdXSVgh_y_QbaDi

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Keystone XL – threat to water

A presentation of information and documentation showing that Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and tar sands development threatens water supplies.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsnV02J0uM&context=C3d931bcADOEgsToPDskKxGhMHH2C0boWgZV2ZB5ZX

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Keystone XL equals disaster!

A narrative about a former inspector for TransCanada and the Keystone pipeline, now turned whistle blower. Listen to what a disaster Keystone XL…

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYD__-h8OEU&context=C3037175ADOEgsToPDskLl9aQF-uBuMnvqS2RiQjdG

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Facts Dictate Keystone XL Has NO National Interest

Today, 12-18-11, as I researched the latest Keystone XL congressional misdirection, I watched the Sunday morning edition of the nationally televised “Meet the Press.” I must admit that I am still amazed at the blatant disregard for accurate information concerning the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was a guest on today’s show and defended his support of the project, as so many do, by simply quoting TransCanada’s forward looking information that is admittedly based on assumptions about jobs claims per the Perryman report (which includes jobs for dancers), and claims of energy security. The jobs claim strays very far from actual jobs numbers and economic benefits from the previously constructed Keystone project. To quote only special interest-funded reports in this project is to disrespect the American people — who deserve an honest assessment of the Keystone XL project.

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Buy Politicians and Make Laws That Fit Your Agenda.- Is This the American Way?

 

Tell Reid and Pelosi: Don’t cave to Republicans on the Keystone XL Pipeline

House Republicans said Friday that they are planning to push a bill to force a decision on the pipeline and strip the President’s authority to make that decision. Worse, they will attach this poison pill to the President’s payroll-tax and unemployment benefit extension package — considered a must-pass piece of legislation that contains crucial help for our long-term unemployed.

“It’s one of the Republicans’ most brazen moves to shill for oil companies at the expense of the rest of us.”

 

Sign the petition at;

 

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/keystone_end_run/?rc=homepage

 

The petition reads:

“Protect Americans from the Keystone XL pipeline. Don’t allow any deals to let Republicans force approval of this disastrous project on the American people.”

See more at;

House GOP loads up year-end bill

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69618.html#ixzz1fQLYx75d

and

Rep. Terry: Boehner will link pipeline bill to jobless insurance, payroll tax bill

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/196855-rep-terry-boehner-will-link-keystone-pipeline-bill-to-jobless-insurance-payroll-tax-bill

 

 

 

 

 

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Now Is the Time to Fight the Keystone Pipeline

“Everyone who helped slow down TransCanada’s “Keystone XL” tar sands juggernaut — rural farmers and ranchers, Native Nations, organized labor, elders, faith leaders, youth, environmentalists and others who protested at the White House this summer and fall — should be proud of what we have accomplished.”

“But let’s not kid ourselves: opponents of Keystone XL have “won” nothing, save more time to organize. Now is not the time for victory celebrations, but for redoubling our efforts to beat back this lethal energy scheme.”

Read the entire article by Tom Weis at; https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/27-5

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Ready or Not – Here TransCanada Comes

News reports out today indicate that TransCanada could start building the portion of the Keystone XL pipeline plan that runs from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf of Mexico, as early as January 2012, even as it awaits U.S. approval for the project as a whole. That portion, or segment of the proposed KXL pipeline is technically labeled “Phase 3.”

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/transcanada-idUSN1E7AF0TA20111116

In order to help clear up some confusion about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and how this new action is possible considering the delay, I must first explain that the Keystone Pipeline System consists of the operational “Keystone Pipeline” (Phase 1) and “Keystone-Cushing Extension” (Phase 2), and two proposed Keystone XL pipeline expansion segments.

The two proposed expansion segments that make up the KXL is what currently needs the presidential permit. If TransCanada were to get the permit for the KXL, they would begin with the Phase 3 segment first. This would connect Cushing and the operational Phase 1 & 2 segments to the refineries in the Gulf. Then they would complete Phase 4 which is what would run through Nebraska. See the link below to view TransCanada’s map of the Keystone Pipeline System.

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A Temporary Reprieve

On Thursday, 11-10-11, the State Department has made the decision to delay the Keystone XL decision until further review. Instead of a decision by the end of this year, the State Department released a statement that said;

“Based on the Department’s experience with pipeline project reviews and the time typically required for environmental reviews of similar scope by other agencies, it is reasonable to expect that this process including a public comment period on a supplement to the final EIS consistent with NEPA could be completed as early as the first quarter of 2013. After obtaining the additional information, the Department would determine, in consultation with the eight other agencies identified in the Executive Order, whether the proposed pipeline was in the national interest, considering all of the relevant issues together. Among the relevant issues that would be considered are environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy.”

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