Sentences with phrase «pipeline construction creates»

The oilsands create thousands of jobs, pipeline construction creates thousands of jobs, and millions of dollars will spin off in revenue and taxation,» said Black.

The Oilsands create thousands of jobs, pipeline construction creates thousands of jobs, and millions and millions of dollars will spin off in revenue and taxation.

Not exact matches

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

Kinder Morgan estimates its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project to the southern British Columbia coast would create 90 permanent new jobs at the end of construction.

Enbridge, the proponent of the Northern Gateway pipeline, linking Alberta's oilsands to British Columbia, estimates on its website that its proposed project would create 560 permanent jobs and about 3,000 temporary construction jobs.

Obama downplayed the job creation prospects of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline last July in an interview with the New York Times, saying that, after construction, it would create «somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working (American) people.»

TransCanada's proposed «Energy - East» pipeline, from Alberta to Atlantic Canada, is estimated to create about 1,000 jobs over the 40 - year life of the pipeline, as well as about 10,000 temporary jobs during construction.

TransCanada estimates on its website that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, linking the oilsands to the gulf coast of Texas, would create about 9,000 jobs during construction in the U.S.

Collins, a Clarence Republican, says the pipeline would have created thousands of construction jobs which could have helped Western New York.

Shale gas production has created new flow patterns that are causing existing pipelines to reverse flow and will necessitate the construction of new pipeline capacity.

A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute stated that the pipeline «will create no more than 2,500 - 4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada's own data supplied to the State Department.»

The State Department estimated in 2011 that the pipeline would create «5,000 to 6,000 direct construction jobs,» but noted that the project «would not have a significant impact on long - term employment»:

It is hard for most Americans to understand how it is contrary to the national interest to create 20,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, increase US gross domestic product by an estimated $ 350 billion, and bring 830,000 barrels of oil per day via pipeline from friend and neighbor Canada to Texas refineries.

The reality was that the pipeline would only create about 35 permanent jobs in the US and a few thousand over the course of its construction, about the same amount of construction used in building a subway stop or a small mall.

The truth is that, according to the State Department, the pipeline will create 35 permanents jobs and 1,950 construction jobs for two years.

According to the U.S. State Department the pipeline would create at most 6,500 temporary construction jobs, and would leave only «hundreds» of permanent jobs, according to TransCanada, the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

The State Department, based on TransCanada's own numbers, shows that at the most 3,900 construction jobs will be created in building the pipeline with only 10 % of the total workforce hired locally.

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

, writing to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton late last year, pitted pipeline construction against clean energy, asserting that «proponents of this pipeline would be wiser to invest instead in job - creating clean energy projects, like renewable power, energy efficiency or advanced vehicles and fuels.»

Citing numbers released by Kinder Morgan, the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce says the Trans Mountain pipeline extension — if built — would create 700 construction jobs over two years.

So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project will extend a pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast in B.C., creating 4,000 construction jobs during a time when housing construction has slowed to a near - halt, and giving access to whole new markets.

REITs have seen an increase in development pipelines, which has created a slight uptick in development exposure in regards to the cost to complete new construction projects.