edthecynic
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If cleaning up oil spills is not a shovel ready job, then nothing is! The Keystone pipeline that is built already has had over 30 spills in its first year. Think about how many jobs that means! Just think, if Trans Canada had contracted with a company that didn't produce substandard steel, think of all the clean-up jobs that would be lost. Quality steel has a record of only 1 leek every 19 years!And you forgot to mention all the jobs cleaning up all the oil spills from Trans Canada contracting with Welspun for shit steel for the project!You don't have a clue about economy. Crap I was only in rock and roll but I fucking get it.
When one builds the expansion to the pipeline, more jobs are created by the very virtue of the other individuals who have to service the workers.
It's simple. Workers on a major project roll in. Every one of them needs a coffee/KFC bucket/toilet paper/pizza.
And every time you post I will post back letting you know we are your number one supplier already.
For heaven's sake RDean please stop lying. This is getting tedious.
And the Keystone extension isn't going to cost any American taxpayer a dime.
It's a complete win win.
Worries over defective steel force TransCanada to check oil pipeline
The government ordered the inspections after problems with substandard steel surfaced in several other projects. An investigation revealed that several pipelines built during a construction boom from 2007 to 2009 contained significant amounts of defective pipe that stretched under pressure. Investigators traced the problems to defective steel produced by several mills, but mostly by Welspun Power and Steel, a manufacturer based in India.
Almost half of the steel in the 30-inch Keystone pipeline came from Welspun and was manufactured about the same time the company provided defective steel on several other pipeline projects. As a result, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the agency charged with oversight of the nation's 2.1 million miles of pipeline, ordered more tests, including on Keystone.
Those recently completed tests identified 47 anomalies where the Keystone pipeline may have expanded beyond agency-stipulated limits.
Keystone oil pipeline shut down after leak
Operators temporarily shut down the new $5.2 billion Keystone oil pipeline that runs through the St. Louis area after a large leak was reported in North Dakota.
Witnesses on Saturday morning reported seeing a six-story geyser of oil gushing from a pump station in Sargent County in the southeastern part of the state.
Officials with TransCanada, the pipeline's owner, blamed a bad fitting and shut down the line until all such fittings could be examined. They expect the system to be down a few more days.
Company officials estimated about 21,000 gallons leaked. A berm around the station contained most of the spill. Some contaminated soil is being removed.
You are insane and only bazooka barfing talking points.