http://abcnews.go.com/US/army-grant-easement-dakota-access-pipeline/story?id=45330548
trump doesn’t think the pipeline is controversial. Can any reasonable person justify that line of “thinking”?
It’s just one misrepresentation after another from Trump. In the case of the Keystone XL pipeline, it would create 35 permanent jobs: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/01/27/pipeline-backers-make-big-promises-about-jobs-growth.html
The Dakota pipeline would probably create even fewer permanent jobs.
The idea that a pipeline would create more jobs is absurd on its surface, since that oil would be transported via truck, train, or ship into the US without the pipeline, and these methods would employ many more people.
And in what universe is this pipeline uncontroversial? It was literally stopped by thousands upon thousands of protesters in a nationwide outcry. The fact that he seems to be so uninformed about the pipeline protests is damning evidence that he lives in his own bubble surrounded by a force-field of alternative facts.
agreed. I have always viewed the “doing A will create BBBBBBBB jobs!” as a case of making very obvious white lies. and never assumed that those making the claims really took themselves seriously. Isn’t it obvious that anything related to constructing these pipelines is temporary? and also, the people building these things probably already have jobs, its just that they will be working on the pipepline instead of a different project.
if you want to help with employment, i think you need to think farther ahead. encourage research and development into new energy markets. you know, like Obama did?