the_tech_eater
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And here is the major news. It is now fact that the pipeline will only create 35 permanent jobs. This temp jobs won't do anything after they are gone. And you still have to consider the environmental impact a leak would have around the pipeline.
Not to mention the amount of private land has to be set aside for a private corporation. I can't find any reasonable argument to justify this pipeline. Potential environmental problems, people will be upset at their land being taken, a bunch of temp jobs that will be gone as soon as the construction ends.
What reasonable long term goals can actually come from this being constructed?
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When has a construction project ever created permanent, career like jobs? Never. That's how construction is. When a new road is built, private land has to be purchased, and workers hired. When the road project is done, those workers are let go. BUT those workers now have job experience, and the chances of them getting a job are better. This is exactly how the keystone XL project will be. And just for the record, Obama in the past has been a huge advocate for building new roads and schools and such because he said... Wait for it.... It would create jobs.... Construction jobs. A construction job is a construction job whether it's building a new highway, school, the new World Trade Center, or the keystone XL pipeline, and they all have one thing in common: they will all be finished at some point. So it's ridiculous to argue against the pipeline just because the jobs aren't permanent, because no construction job or project is.
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