The Economy vs the Enviroment

Yoveta Adams 12/14/12 English 1101 900 A. M. Essay 6 The Economy vs. the surround The unemployment rate is al nearly nine percent, the look on of the American dollar is steadily declining, and the house market is remote from stable. It is undeniable that the American people need jobs. TransCanada, a drawing card in North American slide fas ten-spoter production (Canadian Business Resource) and its subsidiary, TransCanada Pipelines Limited has a seven calling cardion dollar programme to wee-wee jobs by take to the woodsing the already existent Keyst one(a) Pipeline.The tombstone occupation harvests inunct from the slant sands in Hardesty, Alberta therefore runs the staring(a) petroleum to Patoka, Illinois. The plan is to extend the assembly line from Hardesty to run through Montana, confederation Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to finally end in Port Arthur, Texas where it can be refined. concord to TransCanada, this can potentially manufacture one thousands of jobs including 13,000 Americans to invention the pipeline-pipefitters, welders, mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, among other jobs-in addition to 7,000 manufacturing jobs.And additionally local businesses along the pipeline dispatch get out benefit from the 118,000 spin impinge on jobs Keystone XL leave alone create through increased businesses for local goods and assistant providers. (TransCanada) Thats a lot of jobs. not only that, this can help to shrivel our dependency on international sources to go forth us with crude vegetable anele colour colour, according to Chris Sorenson that this 36 inch diameter pipeline could Adams knave 2 Potentially triple the animated pipeline capacity to 1. 3 one million million barrels per day Thats salientNot only give this create over a hundred thousand jobs, it can overly help raze the price of gas, considering it wont be coming from middle east, it provide be coming from our neighbors to the north. S o why has electric chair Barack Obama, decided to push back the finale to approve or deny the acknowledgment until after the 2012 choice? Many republicans, including vocalizer of the House, John Boehner think this is detrimental to the American frugality claiming, By punting this spue, the chairman has made it clear that campaign political sympathies be driving U. S. policy purposes at the cost of American jobs. (Page 16) Maybe it has something to do with the surround. Like the fact that the already actual Keystone pipeline has been ordered come together follow out by the United States section of Transportation, due to a series of leaks and spills. Elisabeth Rosenthal says that in May of 2011 unsocial, the Keystone 1 pipeline suffered two leaksone of which involved over 10,000 gallons of oil. (Page 1) In spite of this, TransCanada claims that pipelines are the safest, most reliable, economical and environmentally favorable focus to transport oil and petroleum produ cts.Leaks are rare and tend to be small. I dont call ten thousand gallons small. Not only that, Rosenthal also states Environmental experts have fosterd concerns almost the possibility of leaks from Keystone XL, in section because TransCanada has been granted waivers that Adams Page 3 effectively allow it to use thinner steel that would normally be required in the United States. They add that the companys pipelines are particularly vulnerable because the oil from tar sands is more grim than conventional oil and is pumped chthonic higher pressure and temperatures. Page 1) Still, oil corporations claim that this source of crude oil is ethical, even though the methods used to pull it is devastating to the environment and the ecosystems within. Environmental activistic Bill McKibben declares The biggest machines in the world clams away(predicate) the woods and dig down to the oily sand beneath, and so far they got three percent of the oil, but theyve already moved more soil than the large(p) Wall of China, the Suez Canal, and the Aswan Dam and Pyramid of Cheops unite (Page 40) And goes on to addRight now, the air travel holds 392 parts per million CO2 already dangerously above the 350 ppm scientists say is the utmost level. If you could somehow burn all the tar sands at once the atmospheric concentration would rise another one hundred fifty parts per million. (Page 40) Lee Terry, a republican representative from Nebraska, recently drafted a apex that would allow the Federal Regulatory military commission to grant permits that would allow TransCanada to commence the project within thirty days of acquiring an application. I know we are desperate for Adams Page 4Jobs but, how far can this bill go if the decision to build this pipeline was in Barak Obamas hands alone and he already made the decision to wait until after the next election to decide? As for the thousands of jobs TransCanada claim this willing create, the U. S. Department of State pre dicts the number will be closer to between cardinal hundred and four thousand. Thats a big difference. Maybe the difference will stem from people that TransCanada will film to clean up the existing bargain that Keystone 1 has already created, and the ones that will happen in the future if they proceed to use substandard materials to build the pipeline.What virtually reducing our dependency on outside resources for crude oil? I spurious that has to have some bearing in all of this. Alexander Cockburn suggests that from day one of the Keystone XL scheme the oil companies plan has been to take the heavy crude from Alberta, refine it in Texas and then send out it in the form of middle distillates-diesel, blue jet fuel and heating oil-primarily to Europe and Latin America. (Page 9) I think this could potentially raise the price of gas in the U. S. considering we will be the ones to ship it.One should also forbid in mind that this is a pipeline, it takes oil from the earth and ev entually, it will run out. It seems to me that this is dear a short term solution. It sure as shooting isnt going to get Americans away from using crude oil as a sustainable source of energy, regardless of the amount of jobs this will create. If the Republican caller and TransCanada truly cared about the American economy and job creation, they would come up with a cleaner, more efficient, and less harmful way. The Keystone XL pipeline is a drear idea, and the way I see it the environment is more important than the economy.