New Cornell Global Labor Institute report shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not the path to economic security | Susan Casey-Lefkowitz's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
In fact the Cornell report notes that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project might kill more jobs than it creates. The loss of jobs is not something considered in TransCanada’s jobs estimates. But TransCanada itself had said that this pipeline project by diverting oil from the US Midwest to the Gulf Coast would cause oil prices to rise in the Midwest – and rising oil prices can be a job killer.Flashback: $8 gas and the green agenda :: Jeff Jacoby
TESTIFYING BEFORE the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about something he said in September. "Somehow," the Nobel laureate had told The Wall Street Journal, "we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time, gasoline in Europe was going for around $8 a gallon. Did the secretary, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns inquired, still want to see US gas prices rise that high?
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