A few follow-up items to this morning’s ruminations on the hot Keystone XL debate:
- It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone to learn that while Michigan legislators (with only one or two notable exceptions) have been sleepy and silent about the Line 6B replacement, they did find time to pass a resolution of support for KXL. The language of the resolution is almost identical to the language of resolutions passed by a handful of other states. Which is almost identical to the language of TransCanada’s PR machinery. Which is almost identical to the language of an industry friendly non-profit organization. A lot of which, we’ll add, is almost identical to things we’ve heard Enbridge reps say on more than one occasion.
- We were also pretty interested in this article debunking TransCanada’s rosy-sounding claims about all the great jobs the project will create– claims that might well be more than a little bit overstated. We’ve hypothesized as much about Enbridge’s similarly unverifiable (and therefore dubious) claims for a while now. By our unscientific estimation (counting pumping stations), the Line 6B project will yield maybe a couple dozen permanent jobs here in Michigan. Oh, and for the record, we did locate another Michigan worker recently. That brings our unofficial count all the way up to 4 Michigan residents out of about 31 workers with whom we’ve spoken.
- Lastly, we mentioned in our earlier post that there was a robust Michigan contingent at this weekend’s D.C. rally– and that just happens to be the topic of our friend Josh Mogerman’s NRDC Switchboard blog post today. Pop on over there and check it out.