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To the president’s environmentalist base, however, the project would simply create tens — not tens of thousands — of permanent jobs after a brief construction phase.

Further proof that the "president's environmentalist base" is composed of complete and utter morons.

An oil pipeline from Alberta Canada to the Gulf of Mexico will be operated by "tens of people"?!?

That's a level of stupid you can't even fake.

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The pipeline waiting approval does not go all the way to the Gulf, it stops in Nebraska.

But it is 1,179 miles long. For comparison the 800 mile Alaskan Pipeline employs 800 direct employees and 1,000 contractors. This does NOT include any employees associated with the production and associated facilities on the North Slope, just the main pipeline.

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