As far as a "potash pipeline", I have no idea. I don't know anything about that.
When it comes to the current pipelines being proposed, I don't even care that much if they are built or not. All I am arguing here is that it isn't necessarily a boon for jobs.
No it's not. Far less jobs than a pipeline.
No oil is moved to port or refineries by truck.You are going to have to start responding with much more detail if you want this discussion to get anywhere.
How do you figure that it requires more jobs to operate a pipeline than is does to move the same amount of oil by rail? Once a pipeline is up and running, the amount of manpower required is pretty minimal(relatively, of course).
You need to look at both direct and indirect employment.
2 pipelines, one East and one West will cost in the billions, and a huge chunk of that money goes to paying the employee base required to get this done
No oil is moved to port or refineries by truck.
Rail oil filling stations aren't fed by truck and are mainly automated with one man doing what 10 used to.
I am not arguing that the construction won't create jobs during the construction of the pipeline. I am saying that long term, the entire point of the pipeline is to cut down on the amount of manpower required to move oil around. A lot of people are currently employed moving oil by rail and trucks.
And hundreds of thousands of km of 4" and 6" latticing AB and SK collecting oil.Rail is relatively recent and the trucking component is still in play to get crude from the batteries to the terminals/refineries.
Pipes because there are no jobs in trucks and rail is automated.
Pipes have more jobs spread all along the line. You see it's not just a pipeline. It's an "energy corridor".
No oil is moved to port or refineries by truck.
A crew of three even if the train is 30 cars or 150 with drones in the middle and back.
Pipelines require manned pumping and lift stations, PM crews, daily fly overs and Provincial utilities to run it from one end to the other.That is a lot of manpower compared to what a pipeline requires.
Think about it. If it wasn't cheaper to move oil by pipeline, why would they be fighting this hard to be allowed to do it?
Pipelines require manned pumping and lift stations, PM crews, daily fly overs and Provincial utilities to run it from one end to the other.
Rail crude minor compared to the grain, intermodal, auto, potash, lumber, coal and chemcials and has to compete for the limited line capacity.
You honestly think that they would want to build pipelines if it were cheaper to move oil by rail?
Rail can't move the same volume.You honestly think that they would want to build pipelines if it were cheaper to move oil by rail?
Or what a potash spill will do to a river system.When you factor in the cost of rebuilding a few small towns that are blown-up, the economics change quite a bit