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“The final EIS from the State Department estimated that, during the construction phase alone, the project would support over 42,000 direct and indirect jobs nationwide, equaling over $2 billion in earnings. Additionally, the project would contribute approximately $3.4 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product.
And while many of the jobs created on the construction side are temporary by nature, other industries in the pipeline’s supply chain will create long-term jobs, especially in manufacturing. Some economists estimate the pipeline would create 20,000 manufacturing and construction jobs, and tens-of-thousands additional spin-off jobs within this supply chain.
“We’re talking about thousands of more jobs from the pipe being manufactured,” said Davis Sheremata, spokesperson for TransCanada. “There is pipe being made in Arkansas, pump motors in Ohio, transformers in Pennsylvania—we have workers in almost every state in the nation benefitting from this.”