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The Keystone XL Jobs Lie (mediamatters4america)

As the newly GOP-controlled Senate attempts to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, the long-debunked myth that the pipeline would create 42,000 jobs continues to pervade in the media - despite the fact that it will create only 35 permanent jobs:

For many years conservative media and the the GOP have framed the Keystone XL pipeline - which would transport highly greenhouse gas-intensive Canadian tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico for export to the global oil market - as a job creation policy, often claiming that the project would create 42,000 new jobs.

...But an exhaustive study by the State Department concluded that the Keystone XL project will result in just 50 jobs, including "35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors." Further, the report stated that spending on the project would support only 3,900 temporary construction jobs if construction lasted one year and just 1,950 temporary construction jobs if construction lasted two years.

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