Repeating the lie.

[Scuba]

[yourout]

1. What about all the clean up jobs when it ruptures?

[paleotn]

2. And those definitely fall into the permanent category.

[valerief]

4. +1 gazillion, because the spills NEVER end. nt

[ReRe]

7. Those would be the Haliberton/KBR-types...

...who travel in groups, from one spill to another. It'll take them forever to get there. They'll do half a job, and move on..... something like that.

[truedelphi]

3. Hats off to Cornell University.

And shame on the political leaders and media that keep spreading lies.

[bobclark86]

5. The sad part is...

the "right-wing" numbers include things like expanded refineries, more transport jobs to end markets, plastics manufacturers with cheaper supplies hiring more workers...

...so yeah, 140,000 people could end up employed. Just like how Apple says it created half a million jobs with the iPhone (manufacturing, distribution, app developers, even FedEx jobs and right on down the line).

Cornell looked at immediate construction and operating jobs, but unlike the scope of the report, nothing exists in a vacuum.

That said, I'm sure cleanup jobs are also counted...

[Initech]

6. Fox News - everything they say is a lie.

[defacto7]

8. I heard a 4000 temporary jobs figure

a long time ago.. many months ago. How they can possibly still be using the TransCanada figures is far beyond me. Those TC figures have been trashed too long ago for the government to still be using them. There is definitely politics in play that trumps facts.

[Arctic Dave]

9. Standard oil corporation bullshit.

Overinflated job numbers to help sell the lie. They do it constantly up here.

The Trans Alaska Pipeline didn't even produce that many jobs.

[Quantess]

10. K & R

[HiPointDem]

11. kr

[steve2470]

12. k&r nt