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.
IRONY ALERT!!!
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But TransCanada numbers count each job on a yearly basis. If the pipeline employs 10,000 people working for two years, that's 20,000 jobs by the company's count.*
The estimates also include jobs in Canada, where about a third of the $7 billion pipeline would be constructed.*
The U.S. State Department, which must green light the project, forecasts just 5,000 direct U.S. jobs over a two year construction period.*
Even according to TransCanada, the amount of permanent jobs created would be only in the hundreds.*
"Those are the real numbers," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of international programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The Republicans have been acting as if this is a national jobs package, and it's not."*
