TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, heralded by supporters as a major job creator, will add only a modest number of permanent positions once it is built.
The number of people needed to operate and maintain the 1,661-mile, $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline may be as few as 20, according to the State Department, or as many as a few hundred, according to TransCanada.
The company says building the pipeline will create 20,000 "new, real U.S. jobs," with 13,000 in construction and 7,000 in manufacturing. At least one estimate puts the construction job count at considerably less.
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--Jack Z. Smith
One question that certainly continues to poke at me on this matter is that of a lack of permanent jobs. Throughout the petitioning against the Keystone pipeline there has been a continual complaint of how this project doesn’t create enough permanent jobs, yet there has been little discussion about a plan that would support either more or more permanent jobs in place of not going through with the Keystone pipeline. To me this doesn’t solve the problem that we are having, it only drags it further on (http://eng.am/xmoh86). Why we are so quick to destroy this job and yet have no replacement or strategy for the recovery. If we’re going to kill projects we need to have a plan to get back on track too. For a number of people these 20,000 potential jobs mean something even if they are only temporary and could also serve as bridge to more permanent work down the road.
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