Goodman co-authored a 2011 report questioning the project’s employment potential. But it’s unclear if higher costs can be associated with more jobs, said Ian Goodman, president of the Goodman Group Ltd. Put it all together and you get very few permanent jobs, about 10,000 or so temporary jobs in construction and another 26,000 more temporary spin-off jobs that could be created or supported.Īccording to The Globe and Mail newspaper of Canada, the pipeline extension’s cost has risen from $5.4 billion to $8 billion. The State Department calls these jobs "supported" and not created because it includes jobs that already exist. The jobs would be in providing the supply chain to Keystone as well as employee spending on lodging, food, entertainment, health care, etc. The State Department estimates that 26,100 indirect and induced jobs "would be supported by construction of the proposed project" during the construction phase. Induced jobs are jobs created by workers spending their wages in the economy. Indirect jobs are a result of goods and services purchased by construction crews. To get there, you need to also include indirect and induced "spin-off" jobs. "We’ve always talked about the positions because that’s what we cut the paychecks for," said TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard.īy either estimate, the number of direct pipeline jobs created is not in the tens of thousands. TransCanada argues this makes more sense because the nature of construction work is for contractors to move from one job to the next, even if it does not last for a year at a time. These are not measured on an average annual basis, but on an overall basis. TransCanada counts direct job creation a little differently, estimating about 9,000 overall positions for construction and manufacturing. Construction work would be spread over four states, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, though most workers would be specialized and need to be brought in from outside those states, the report notes. This works out to 3,900 "average annual" jobs over one year of construction, or 1,950 jobs each year if the project takes two years to finish. The State Department figures construction would require around 10,400 seasonal workers for stretches that would last either four or eight months. Other jobs are simply a nature of how spending $8 billion ripples out into the economy. Over the course of up to two years of construction, the State Department estimates a total of 42,100 jobs "would be supported by construction of the proposed project." Some jobs are directly tied to the pipeline and construction. There are, however, temporary jobs that would be supported by building the $8 billion pipeline over one or two years. The lack of many full-time positions makes sense, given that the project is to build a pipeline so that tar sands can travel without the need of rail cars or ships. The full-time workers would be "required for annual operations, including routine inspections, maintenance and repair." Some would work in a Nebraska field office. The pipeline would connect with an existing southern leg that opened in early 2014, delivering more than 800,000 barrels of oil to refineries on the Gulf Coast.Īs far as new jobs go, the State Department estimates the operation of the pipeline will only create 35 permanent, full-time jobs and 15 temporary contractors. TransCanada’s project shuffling a heavy crude oil mixture from Western Canada to Steele City, Neb., has long been on hold pending a review by Obama and the State Department, which must determine if it "serves the national interest" because it crosses an international border.
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The bottom line: Keystone isn’t the massive jobs generator that some make it out to be. The job-creation argument behind the controversial pipeline is one fact-checkers have reviewed many times. "And if you would just approve the Keystone XL pipeline, there would be tens of thousands of jobs created," Kooiman said Nov. Plans include reforming the tax code, renewing the fight against Obamacare and approving the Keystone XL pipeline, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial by House Speaker John Boehner and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.įox and Friends fill-in host and reporter Anna Kooiman honed in on the latter initiative during a post-Election Day discussion about the GOP leaders’ plans.
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Republicans already have some things they’d like to do when they assume full control of Congress in January.
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