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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 1454177" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/news/economy/keystone-jobs/index.html?iid=SF_E_River" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/news/economy/keystone-jobs/index.html?iid=SF_E_River</a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline herald it as a job-creating machine, producing as many as 119,000 jobs.</strong></span></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p> <em>But only 3,900 workers will actually be required to build the pipeline to carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, according to the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/politics/keystone-pipeline/?iid=EL" target="_blank">U.S. State Department</a>, and those jobs will only last for a year. There will be 35 permanent positions created. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p> <em>TransCanada (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=TRP&source=story_quote_link" target="_blank">TRP</a>), the company seeking permission to build the pipeline, claims the effort will create 13,000 construction jobs. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p> <em>But even TransCanada only expects that building the pipeline will take about 7 million hours of labor. That works out to about a year's worth of work for 3,400 workers. If the work were spread evenly across 13,000 workers, it would only mean three months of work for each.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 1454177, member: 55299"] [url]http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/news/economy/keystone-jobs/index.html?iid=SF_E_River[/url] [I] [SIZE=5][B]Supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline herald it as a job-creating machine, producing as many as 119,000 jobs.[/B][/SIZE] But only 3,900 workers will actually be required to build the pipeline to carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, according to the [URL='http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/politics/keystone-pipeline/?iid=EL']U.S. State Department[/URL], and those jobs will only last for a year. There will be 35 permanent positions created. TransCanada ([URL='http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=TRP&source=story_quote_link']TRP[/URL]), the company seeking permission to build the pipeline, claims the effort will create 13,000 construction jobs. But even TransCanada only expects that building the pipeline will take about 7 million hours of labor. That works out to about a year's worth of work for 3,400 workers. If the work were spread evenly across 13,000 workers, it would only mean three months of work for each.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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