It's not my estimate but the VP of TransCanada.
TransCanada Vice President Robert Jones said permanent jobs would be “in the hundreds, certainly not in the thousands,” in a Nov. 11 interview on CNN.
Where did you get your wildly inflated number from?
I've seen them quoted on every network.
Here's a citation from CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/13/news/economy/keystone_pipeline_jobs/index.htmTransCanada (TRP), the company that wants to build the pipeline, says Keystone would create 20,000 "direct" jobs. That includes 13,000 construction jobs and 7,000 jobs making stuff like pump houses and the pipe itself.
It also projects nearly 120,000 "indirect" jobs -- think restaurant workers and hotel employees to support the construction.
That is likewise quoted directly from the TransCanada.
You selectively ignore part of what was said by TransCanada, in order to downplay the number of jobs it would create.
The same way Obama conversely exaggerates the number of jobs he created by including tens of thousands of temporary U.S. census jobs, where the census on Obama's watch used more than double the staff and cost of the previous census.
There are varying estimates from different sources of how many jobs would be created in the short and long term. But Transcanada --the source YOU quoted-- estimates 20,000 jobs, in combined construction and pipeline jobs.
