The (35) Job-Creating Keystone Pipeline
Click here for reuse options!The report says the project would provide jobs for about 35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors.
The full-timers would be “required for annual operations, including routine inspections, maintenance and repair.” Some would work in Canada. The U.S. employees would work at pump stations along the pipeline route as well as a Nebraska office.
The project’s impact on housing, property taxes and service industries once in operation? Not much. Not much is known about the contractors’ workload except they would provide additional specialized support.
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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StoneyCurtisll January 7th, 2015 at 16:19
Pipeline?
What Pipeline?..
With Oil selling on the global market for 50+- US dollars a barrel..
The Canadian “tar sands” are are no longer a profitable venture..
Even if the Keystone XL pipeline is passed, they have no profit motive in building it..
As we speak, the mining of the Canadian tar sands is costing more money than they are making from the mining and refining those “sands”..
There is no need for a pipe to ship what is already a soon to be shut down effort to extract oil from an expensive mining operation.
Weebal January 9th, 2015 at 02:15
Isn’t the pipeline still useful to keep the American people divided?
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:12
Tar sands, without the pipeline, is a non-profitable venture currently. The pipeline would drastically cut down on transportation costs, which is why we need to get it built.
StoneyCurtisll January 14th, 2015 at 15:29
What part of “the tar sands” are no longer profitable to mine do you not understand?..
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:40
What part about currently, tar sands are not profitable, but the pipeline would make it marginally profitable. It costs about $25 per barrel to mine and another $25 to ship, so yes, currently it is not profitable to mine tar sands, hence companies are stopping production. But the current method of shipping is train. If the pipeline were to be built, the transportation costs are reduced to $9 per barrel, leaving a $16 per barrel profit, if oil prices stay at $50.
alpacadaddy January 19th, 2015 at 12:07
Whadda ya mean “WE” need to get it built? Pushing people off their own land by use of Eminent Domain is bad enough (but understandable for public projects which serve the greater good, like highways for instance), but to allow for-profit companies seize private or public lands in order to make a profit, and in this case a FOREIGN company at that. Putting our largest aquafir and groundwater at risk, all so they can sell this product to China? What could possibly go wrong?
StoneyCurtisll January 7th, 2015 at 17:19
Pipeline?
What Pipeline?..
With Oil selling on the global market for 50+- US dollars a barrel..
The Canadian “tar sands” are are no longer a profitable venture..
Even if the Keystone XL pipeline is passed, they have no profit motive in building it..
As we speak, the mining of the Canadian tar sands is costing more money than they are making from the mining and refining those “sands”..
There is no need for a pipe to ship what is already a soon to be shut down effort to extract oil from an expensive mining operation.
Weebal January 9th, 2015 at 03:15
Isn’t the pipeline still useful to keep the American people divided?
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:12
Tar sands, without the pipeline, is a non-profitable venture currently. The pipeline would drastically cut down on transportation costs, which is why we need to get it built.
StoneyCurtisll January 14th, 2015 at 16:29
What part of “the tar sands” are no longer profitable to mine do you not understand?..
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:40
What part about currently, tar sands are not profitable, but the pipeline would make it marginally profitable. It costs about $25 per barrel to mine and another $25 to ship, so yes, currently it is not profitable to mine tar sands, hence companies are stopping production. But the current method of shipping is train. If the pipeline were to be built, the transportation costs are reduced to $9 per barrel, leaving a $16 per barrel profit, if oil prices stay at $50.
alpacadaddy January 19th, 2015 at 13:07
Whadda ya mean “WE” need to get it built? Pushing people off their own land by use of Eminent Domain is bad enough (but understandable for public projects which serve the greater good, like highways for instance), but to allow for-profit companies seize private or public lands in order to make a profit, and in this case a FOREIGN company at that. Putting our largest aquafir and groundwater at risk, all so they can sell this product to China? What could possibly go wrong?
tracey marie January 7th, 2015 at 17:00
we should create jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure
Bunya January 7th, 2015 at 22:13
C’mon. How are these crooked politicians gonna retire and, “live the life they’ve become accustomed to” on the paltry salary the government pays them? They’re looking for the BIG bucks – houses in the Caribbean and Dubai, yachts, pretty women – and those big bucks are in oil.
tracey marie January 7th, 2015 at 22:15
I hear ya sister
rg9rts January 8th, 2015 at 02:23
pitty pum pitty PUM THWACK PIQUE skitter scatter
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:09
Except all of those jobs would be temporary, much like the 42,000 jobs needed to complete the pipeline.
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 15:41
rotflmao…because growth and upkeep would not happen.
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:45
Most of the bridges and what have you are pushing several decades old. Are these so called new jobs that you think will be created supposed to be paying the person for decades without a day worked?
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 15:48
without a day worked, try again in english
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:53
Bridges, roads, etc need to be repaired/replaced right now, all of us know this. Only thing is, you fail to realize that roads, bridges, etc once built last for decades. Some bridges that are failing right now are pushing 50 years old. That would be 10-50 years after the construction before these people are needed to work again. There are already county jobs that maintain the roadways, these aren’t new positions. So there is a massive need for workers to complete the initial construction of the roads, bridges, etc, but once the work is complete, they no longer have a job.
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 15:55
rotflmao, you haven’t been to Texas lately, every 4 years they have to rebuild the roads
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 15:57
Are they the same roads, or different ones?
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:00
And what are the people supposed to do for 4 years, when there isn’t any work?
Obewon January 23rd, 2015 at 08:46
The pipeline “will create no more than 2,500-4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department.” It estimated that “the new permanent US pipeline jobs in the US number as few as (35 to) 50.”-Via A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute. http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/02/14/5-myths-about-keystone-xl-debunked/192668
bahlers January 23rd, 2015 at 12:55
Yet the Perryman Group hired by TransCanada reports 250-550k permanent jobs will be created with the actual company predicting 180k. The truth is we have no real way of knowing how many jobs will result from the project before it starts.
tracey marie January 7th, 2015 at 18:00
we should create jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure
Bunya January 7th, 2015 at 23:13
C’mon. How are these crooked politicians gonna retire and, “live the life they’ve become accustomed to” on the paltry salary the government pays them? They’re looking for the BIG bucks – houses in the Caribbean and Dubai, yachts, pretty women – and those big bucks are in oil.
tracey marie January 7th, 2015 at 23:15
I hear ya sister
rg9rts January 8th, 2015 at 03:23
pitty pum pitty PUM THWACK PIQUE skitter scatter
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:09
Except all of those jobs would be temporary, much like the 42,000 jobs needed to complete the pipeline.
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 16:41
rotflmao…because growth and upkeep would not happen.
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:45
Most of the bridges and what have you are pushing several decades old. Are these so called new jobs that you think will be created supposed to be paying the person for decades without a day worked?
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 16:48
without a day worked, try again in english
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:53
Bridges, roads, etc need to be repaired/replaced right now, all of us know this. Only thing is, you fail to realize that roads, bridges, etc once built last for decades. Some bridges that are failing right now are pushing 50 years old. That would be 10-50 years after the construction before these people are needed to work again. There are already county jobs that maintain the roadways, these aren’t new positions. So there is a massive need for workers to complete the initial construction of the roads, bridges, etc, but once the work is complete, they no longer have a job.
tracey marie January 14th, 2015 at 16:55
rotflmao, you haven’t been to Texas lately, every 4 years they have to rebuild the roads
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 16:57
Are they the same roads, or different ones?
bahlers January 14th, 2015 at 17:00
And what are the people supposed to do for 4 years, when there isn’t any work?
Obewon January 23rd, 2015 at 09:46
The pipeline “will create no more than 2,500-4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department.” It estimated that “the new permanent US pipeline jobs in the US number as few as (35 to) 50.”-Via A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute. http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/02/14/5-myths-about-keystone-xl-debunked/192668 Lol bahlers is teabonics for 10-fold/1000% bullshit error rate.
bahlers January 23rd, 2015 at 13:55
Yet the Perryman Group hired by TransCanada reports 250-550k permanent jobs will be created with the actual company predicting 180k. The truth is we have no real way of knowing how many jobs will result from the project before it starts.
Anomaly 100 January 7th, 2015 at 20:37
Jinkies, that many?!
Anomaly 100 January 7th, 2015 at 21:37
Jinkies, that many?!
rg9rts January 8th, 2015 at 02:22
And all the product is for export.
rg9rts January 8th, 2015 at 03:22
And all the product is for export.
Denise January 8th, 2015 at 11:48
How much you wanna bet those “permanent jobs” are for the top economic tier?
Denise January 8th, 2015 at 12:48
How much you wanna bet those “permanent jobs” are for the top economic tier?
Candide Thirtythree March 8th, 2015 at 01:32
It takes all 4 years for them to build, it never stops, it needs to be done forever to keep them from deteriorating.
Candide Thirtythree March 8th, 2015 at 01:34
did you not read the story two up from this one that says we already have so much oil that there is no place left to put it?