Fox Wildly Inflates The Number Of Jobs Keystone XL Pipeline Might Create

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/research/201111090012?frontpage

1 hour and 46 minutes ago

Fox News has claimed that TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline would create somewhere between 50,000 and a million jobs. In fact, even TransCanada acknowledges that the total jobs created would be far fewer, and an independent report has found that the project could actually destroy more jobs than it creates through higher fuel costs and environmental damage.

[truebrit71]

1. That's great...who was their reporter...Doctor Evil?

..."this project will create one miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion jobs...."

[sakabatou]

2. Can we make a book about Fox "News" called "Lord of the Lies?"

[TBMASE]

3. Unions support it because of the jobs. While I don't know that its 50,000

I know that a union spokesman was talking about 10's of thousands of jobs directly related to the construction plus she support jobs that would be created.

Union Spokesman estimates 118,000

http://pipeline-news.com/feature/union-support-keystone-xl-pipeline-project

[Luminous Animal]

7. And the unions have been snookered again... see posts 4 & 6 (n/t)

[RufusTFirefly]

4. According to a Cornell study, there will be NO net jobs. None

From Monday's Democracy Now

JUAN GONZALEZ: And Bill, the claim of proponents that this project would create large numbers of new jobs was also punctured considerably by a recent Washington Post article. Could you talk about that?

BILL McKIBBEN: That was the other piece of very good news yesterday. After months of reporters repeating the same figure from the one study founded by—funded by TransCanada, that there would be 20,000 jobs created, finally a reporter did the work of tracking it down, figured out that it was a complete joke. Even the head of TransCanada was forced to admit they had been using misleading numbers. It’ll create a couple of thousand temporary jobs as the pipeline is built, and then no more after that. That’s the point of having a pipeline. It doesn’t take anyone to run it. Meanwhile, the only independent study, done by a labor think tank at Cornell, shows that there will be no net jobs, that it will kill as many as it will create, even in those temporary jobs.

We know where the jobs are. The jobs are when we finally get around to putting solar panels on people’s roofs, to insulating their homes, to doing all the things that our energy conversion will demand when we finally stop just finding the next source of fossil fuel, when we finally take the environment seriously. And that’s why there’s so many people out in the street and why so many of those people were the exact same people who were out in the street for Barack Obama four years ago.

[KansDem]

5. How many of those will be for clean-up crews?

Emergency evacuation personnel?

Morgue workers?

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Cornell GLI Study Finds Keystone XL Pipeline Will Create Few Jobs

Cornell GLI (Global Labor Institute) Study Finds Keystone XL Pipeline Will Create Few Jobs

Previous Studies Are Misleading; Project May Kill More Projects Than It Creates.

Cornell GLI’s new report, Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of Keystone XL examines the job impacts of TransCanada Corportation's Keystone XL Pipeline, the proposed pipeline that would transport tar sands oil almost 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. The report reviews claims made by TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute that the project will create 20,000 construction and manufacturing and 119,000 (direct, indirect and induced) jobs.

The report concludes that the job estimates put forward by TransCanada are unsubstantiated and the project will not only create fewer jobs than industry states, but that the project could actually kill more jobs than it creates. Main findings includes:

The project budget that has a direct impact on U.S. employment is between $3 and $4 billion or about half of what industry claims.

50% or more of the steel pipe, the main material input used for Keystone XL, will be manufactured outside of the U.S.

Jobs will be temporary and between 85-90% of the people hired to do the work will be non-local or from out of state.

The Perryman study, which estimates around 119,000 (direct, indirect and induced) jobs is a poorly documented study commissioned by TransCanada.

Job losses would be caused by additional fuel costs in the Midwest, pipeline spills, pollution and the rising costs of climate change. Even one year of fuel price increases as a result of Keystone XL could cancel out some or all of the jobs created by the project.

Cornell Global Labor Institute

[Autumn]

8. Rufus, that needs to be an OP on its own

The devil is in the details and we have been hoodwinked. Thank you for this post from Cornell. K/R for the truth

[woo me with science]

10. Please make this an OP.

Thank you very much for this link.

[RufusTFirefly]

11. Thanks for the suggestion. Done!

See

Cornell GLI Study Finds Keystone XL Pipeline Will Create Few Jobs

[JackintheGreen]

9. Seriously? Up to a million jobs?

Walmart employs 1.8 million. The nearest competitor is McDonald's, with just under half a million. I don't see any energy concerns on Forbes top 50 (though I don't recognize them all).