U.S. to re-route Keystone XL due to environmental concerns
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Even according to TransCanada, the amount of permanent jobs created would be only in the hundreds. "Those are the real numbers," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of international programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
CNN: Keystone pipeline: How many jobs it would really create
CNN: Keystone pipeline: How many jobs it would really create
.. Just related to the pipeline itself.
Go back and re-read what Petros hinted at.
Think MF, really try to think this time!
Find them yourself... You would never accept anything from me that didn't support your self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sure you did... Only a few hundred jobs related to the pipeline, right?
In the end, I really don't care what the eco-propagandists decide to believe... I don't have to live with their decisions - they do.
You mean the one that won't affect the employment rate whatsoever?
» The industry’s claim that KXL will create 119,000 total jobs (direct, indirect, and
induced) is based on a flawed and poorly documented study commissioned by
TransCanada (The Perryman Group study). Perryman wrongly includes over $1
billion in spending and over 10,000 person-years of employment for a section
of the Keystone project in Kansas and Oklahoma that is not part of KXL and has
already been built.
» KXL will not be a major source of US jobs, nor will it play any substantial role at
all in putting Americans back to work. Even if the Perryman figures were accurate,
and all of the workers for the next phase of the project were hired immediately, the
US seasonally adjusted unemployment rate would remain at 9.1%—exactly where it
is now.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf
Forget keystone pipeline: Ex-oil man T-Bone Pickens has a better plan
On Thursday, Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who have spent weeks trying to get approval for the Keystone XL pipeline in exchange for payroll tax cut extensions, were still determined to block any progress, while Americans continue to struggle and yet another government shutdown inched closer.
On the same day, ex-oil man T-Bone Pickens took to the air waves on CNN to promote his plan of moving the country toward more energy self-reliance and job creation, by investing in wind, solar and natural gas.
Supportersof the TransCanada pipeline, including Koch Industries, tout the claim of 20,000 new jobs and the pursuit of less dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Opposition of the pipeline, which initially was planned to cross six states from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, say it would pose a risk to vital aquifers, particularly in Nebraska, where 30% of U.S. irrigation water originates and that more jobs would be created by moving the country forward to renewable energy sources.
Tar sand is composed of clay, dirt, oil and sand. It is very thick and requires extensive processing using known compounds classified as carcinogenic by the EPA to make it thin enough to flow through a pipeline.
The pipeline, carrying an extremely corrosive oil product would cut through six states, including Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Government data showed that spill damage in 2010 alone was almost a billion dollars.
T-Bone Pickens has a plan to move the United States to natural energy self-reliance, using the fact that U.S. natural gas is the cheapest in the world and he sees it as a bridge-product on the road to oil independence, while alternate energy sources are being developed. The project is called pickensplan.com.
According the Pickens website:
Any discussion of alternatives should begin with the 2007 Department of Energy study showing that building out our wind capacity in the Great Plains - from northern Texas to the Canadian border - would produce 138,000 new jobs in the first year, and more than 3.4 million new jobs over a ten-year period, while also producing as much as 20 percent of our needed electricity.
Building out solar energy in the Southwest from western Texas to California would add to the boom of new jobs and provide more of our growing electrical needs - doing so through economically viable, clean, renewable sources.
More information on T-Bone Pickens’s plan.
Forget keystone pipeline: Ex-oil man T-Bone Pickens has a better plan - National environmental policy | Examiner.com
On Thursday, Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who have spent weeks trying to get approval for the Keystone XL pipeline in exchange for payroll tax cut extensions, were still determined to block any progress, while Americans continue to struggle and yet another government shutdown inched closer.
On the same day, ex-oil man T-Bone Pickens took to the air waves on CNN to promote his plan of moving the country toward more energy self-reliance and job creation, by investing in wind, solar and natural gas.
Supportersof the TransCanada pipeline, including Koch Industries, tout the claim of 20,000 new jobs and the pursuit of less dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Opposition of the pipeline, which initially was planned to cross six states from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, say it would pose a risk to vital aquifers, particularly in Nebraska, where 30% of U.S. irrigation water originates and that more jobs would be created by moving the country forward to renewable energy sources.
“More than 500,000 Americans have submitted comments opposing this tar sands pipeline,” said Jeremy Symons, Senior Vice President of the National Wildlife Federation. “Never before has there been this level of public opposition to a single energy project.”
President Obama initially supported an agreement with Canada for the pipeline, but on November 11, he put a delay on the project, in favor of more environmental studies and routing reviews, requested by conservationists and state governors.
Tar sand is composed of clay, dirt, oil and sand. It is very thick and requires extensive processing using known compounds classified as carcinogenic by the EPA to make it thin enough to flow through a pipeline.
“The dangers of the pipeline are compelling and no one should believe the claims of, either the Republican leadership or the energy companies, with respect to the project being shovel ready or with respect to the number of jobs it’s going to produce,” said Roger Toussaint, International Vice President of the Transport Workers Union.
One concern among many, with environmentalists, is that tar sand has to be mined, not extracted, and four tons of sand and soil are removed to produce one barrel of marketable oil. The process has been compared to mountain-top coal mining, where entire ecosystems are dredged and destroyed to access the product.
The pipeline, carrying an extremely corrosive oil product would cut through six states, including Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Government data showed that spill damage in 2010 alone was almost a billion dollars.
T-Bone Pickens has a plan to move the United States to natural energy self-reliance, using the fact that U.S. natural gas is the cheapest in the world and he sees it as a bridge-product on the road to oil independence, while alternate energy sources are being developed. The project is called pickensplan.com.
According the Pickens website:
Any discussion of alternatives should begin with the 2007 Department of Energy study showing that building out our wind capacity in the Great Plains - from northern Texas to the Canadian border - would produce 138,000 new jobs in the first year, and more than 3.4 million new jobs over a ten-year period, while also producing as much as 20 percent of our needed electricity.
Building out solar energy in the Southwest from western Texas to California would add to the boom of new jobs and provide more of our growing electrical needs - doing so through economically viable, clean, renewable sources.
“Oil prices are set by OPEC and the global demand” said Pickens in a Thursday CNN interview. “We won’t be seeing the price of gasoline for our cars go much lower. But for our electricity and home heat, we have plenty of resources right here--wind, solar and natural gas that is cheaper than in any other country—so, we could replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in the next ten years and power our own economy--but it will depend on leadership.”
It would require leadership in government and the private sector to guide America away from past draconian plans of drilling in Alaska’s pristine nature preserve and crossing environmentally sensitive parts of the country with a another tar-filled pipeline.
More information on T-Bone Pickens’s plan.
Forget keystone pipeline: Ex-oil man T-Bone Pickens has a better plan - National environmental policy | Examiner.com
You're getting duped by one of the best MF.
T-Boone Pickens is not an 'ex' oilman, he still drills and explores under the guise of looking for gas... Often - accidentally - finds oil, but in the end, he's playing it really smart by investing in nat gas which is highly undervalued right now. It won't be long before nat gas starts trading at 5 or 6 bucks a gig and he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Just so you know, the only 'green' that he likely cares about is the kind that you take to the bank.
No doubt, a very smart man
Nevertheless, at least his plan makes more economical and environmental sense than the pipe.
Fun Fact for ya.... Natural Gas requires lots of pipeline to get the gas to a refining plant and then later onto the markets.
Thought that you should know.
Pipelines? Really? The same nat gas pipelines that we decomissioned, refitted for crude to go to the TX oil bourse like Keystone?
Hey, I'm not saying I agree with it. Just that it's better than this disaster of an idea.