We don’t need the pipelines, megaloads, or tar sands to give us more jobs.
1) “Across a range of clean energy projects, including renewable energy, transportation, and energy efficiency, for every million dollars spent, 16.7 green jobs are created. That is over three times the 5.3 jobs per million dollars that are created from the same spending on fossil-fuel industries.”
Searching for Green Jobs for the Coalfields
2) “Despite generating $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP together reduced their U.S. workforce by 11,200 employees during that time.”
Big Oil Companies Make Huge Profits with Taxpayer Support but Cut Jobs Anyway
3) Researchers at Cornell University put a lot of time and energy into examining the subject of jobs and the Keystone XL pipeline. Share their findings by downloading a free pdf document from this page:
Cornell University Economists Debunk Keystone XL Economic Claims
(Information compiled by Sharon Cousins.)