Here are a couple
tidbits about the notorious Keystone XL Pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp.
to bring its Canadian tar sands product to the Texas Gulf Coast for refining.
The CEO of TransCanada said recently that, after completion of the pipeline, it would
support about 50 permanent new jobs. Although proponents of the pipeline have
been claiming it would massively create new jobs, the sober estimates are that
several thousand temporary workers would be hired to build the pipeline, some for as
little as two months….
.…and while we’re on
the subject of American jobs: TransCanada has already acquired the steel pipe
for the project and put in storage—it was purchased from India.
One more point: the Keystone pipeline isn’t going to do much
to further American energy independence. Obviously, America doesn’t own the Canadian
tar sands, TransCanada owns it and wants to sell it—and TransCanada hasn’t
attempted to conceal the prospect that some or a lot of the refined end
products at Texas refineries will be put on the world market for sale to the
highest bidder.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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