Keystone Pipeline

[Big Smoothy]

I've been googling and reading different viewpoints from many sources and I'm looking for any objective info on the Keystone Pipeline and its recent rejection.

How many jobs will be created?

Jobs in what country?

Is it true most of the oil goes to China?

Who benefits?

Are the environmentalist claims accurate?

Are the oil companies claims accurate?


As usual, there seems to be some much propaganda that I can't figure out what the think on this.

Any one have some good soures of info on this?

 

[LAM]

I hear ya, I've spent a lot of time trying to find non-biased info on this topic. historically oil & gas extraction, etc. has never been a major source of employment in the US. I think at it's highest point the industry was employing around 250K. but all that stuff is on the BLS website.

Here is a report from Cornell on the pipeline:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_011912_FIN.pdf

 

[Big Smoothy]

^ Thanks LAM,

I'll check out your source now.