Thousands of people yesterday marched on the White House, demanding the President Obama stop the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. Since it’s hard to make an environmental argument for a pipeline to carry fossil fuel across a crucial aquifer, most of the arguments for the Keystone project have been economic ones.
And on the economics, the protest movement seems to be getting somewhere. From the Washington Post:
A TransCanada statement Sept. 30 said the project would be “stimulating over 14,400 person years of employment” in Oklahoma alone. It cited a study by Ray Perryman, a Texas-based consultant to TransCanada, saying the pipeline would create “250,000 permanent jobs for U.S. workers.”









