🇺🇸 Conservative politicians claim US President Joe Biden's cancelation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline cost 60,000 jobs. This is misleading -- the project would have created jobs, but only around 50 of them would have been permanent, according to ENERGY
, includes a range of estimates from 2010-2014 on how many jobs Keystone XL would have created. The highest figure is 59,468."Estimates for the jobs created during the construction phase of the KXL pipeline ranged from 16,149 to 59,468 annually for a two-year period," the report says.
The document adds that the high estimate comes"from a study that faced significant criticism for including in its analysis project inputs from India, Russia, and Russian companies in Canada, thus including jobs outside the United States, and also including portions of the Keystone pipeline project outside the XL segment inAn Energy Department spokesperson told AFP on January 10 that the report"concluded there were limited job impacts, with approximately 50 permanent jobs estimated to...
Construction jobs"would be more significant but temporary," according to the agency's December report. "If construction were to take two years, about 3,900 direct jobs would be created annually during construction, and 21,050 U.S. total jobs would be created, counting indirect and induced jobs," the reportKeystone XL jobs have been the subject of political spin for the better part of a decade.
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