EcoWatch: In an interview with the New York Times on July 27, President Obama asserted that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would create approximately 2,000 jobs. The Presidents claim is consistent with both the findings of the Cornell Global Labor Institutes 2011 study, Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline on the job impacts of the project and the State Departments latest assessment (SDEIS, March 2013).
President Obamas statement that the Keystone...