Look, my hometown went through this with the frackers and that's a whole lot more involved then a single pipeline.........once the cap is done there's no more work..it's a done deal....they have 'one' guy running around the area reading meters. I'm telling you this isn't about thousands of jobs...its’ temporary workers who will more than likely sign on with the bidders.
Then when it's done Canada ships the oil out to foreign countries who already have the contracts...the oil does not go here. So what is the purpose for us?
Here’s the breakdown of bennies from TransCanada:
The $5.3-billion Keystone XL Pipeline Project is the largest infrastructure project currently proposed in the United States. Construction of the 1,179-mile pipeline will require 9,000 skilled American workers. The project will provide jobs for welders, mechanics, electricians, pipefitters, laborers, safety coordinators, heavy equipment operators and other workers who rely on large construction projects for their livelihoods.
In addition to construction jobs, an estimated 7,000 U.S. jobs are being supported in manufacturing the steel pipe and the thousands of fittings, valves, pumps and control devices required for a major oil pipeline.
TransCanada has contracts with more than 50 suppliers across the U.S., including companies in Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Indiana, Georgia, Maryland, New York, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, Arkansas, Kansas, California and Pennsylvania.
TransCanada employed 4,844 Americans in Oklahoma and Texas on construction of the $2.3-billion Gulf Coast Pipeline Project, which is expected to be complete by the end of this year.
Construction and development of the Keystone XL and Gulf Coast Pipeline Projects is anticipated to generate $20 billion in economic impact in the United States, including $99 million in local government revenues and $486 million in state government revenues during construction.
The pipelines will also generate an estimated $5 billion in additional property taxes during their operational life.
The Canadian Energy Research Institute predicts that Keystone XL will add $172 billion to America’s gross domestic product by 2035 and will create an additional 1.8 million person-years of employment in the United States over the next 22 years.
I disagree with your statement. I grew up in the east Texas oilfield and as a child I climbed on oil derricks. My father worked for Sun Oil Company from his twenties until he retired many years later. He was in charge of laying large oil pipes and the laying and care of the lines was what he did all those working years and there were crews of men needed for sustaining those pipe lines all those years. The job was unending.
In my adult life I owned Transco stock. They have oil lines going from the processing plants in the Houston ship channel area and down to Texas City where really huge pipelines ran from there up to the east coast. Those lines send heating oil and other oil products up to the east coast. I've seen on a chart the many lines there are going north. Those lines have to be maintained and it takes a large number of workers all along that line. Office workers are also required to generate records, reports, payroll, legal records/reports, etc..
Just because you don't physically see activity, it is happening. It will be the same for this new pipeline. The oil will go to the big plants in the Houston ship channel and Texas City to be refined into various products. Those plants are full of specialized workers and plenty of office people are also needed. Even if the oil products are shipped overseas, it takes our people to get the oil refined to be shipped.
If one needs a job and that pipeline is built, get a job laying the line or working in an office dealing with the laying and care of the line, or go to Texas and get a job in one of those many processing companies on our coast that will refine that oil.
It was oil pipelines that kept my father employed all his life and it was that oil money paid to my father that paid for my college. My mother sewed all my clothes until I graduated high school and was going to college. They took me to Dallas to Sanger Harris Department store and told me to buy any clothes I wanted to take to college. It was Sun Oil stock money that bought those clothes for me, the first store bought clothes I ever had.