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Keystone Pipeline- Money Maker or
Environmental Destroyer
Plungey’s Plumbers
Matt McCarty, Brianna Johnson, Tanner Ward, Morgan Ebelhar
Thesis: Many argue the Keystone Pipeline
Supporters for Keystone Pipeline from Iowa in April
2013 at the Iowa Capital in Des Moines. Picture from
TransCanada.
Argument 1- The pipeline will create many
jobs and be environmentally safe
• The pipe line is nearly 2,000 miles long and will stretch from
Alberta, Canada to the gulf of Mexico.
• It will create 9,000 jobs alone, just to build the pipeline.
• It will also create 42,000 high wage manufacturing and
construction jobs in the U.S.
will create hundreds of thousands of jobs
and lower energy prices, while others
argue that it will destroy the environment
for future generations. We will convince
people how it will be good and the steps
our country should take to prevent it from
harming the environment.
Picture of people protesting the Keystone Pipeline at
the White House. Picture from CNN.
Argument 2 – It will harm the
environment
•Pollution from tar sands oil greatly eclipses that of
conventional oil. During tar sands oil production alone, levels
of carbon dioxide emissions are three to four times higher than
those of conventional oil
•Destroys forests
•Destroy indigenous population
• There are already more than 2.6 million miles of oil and natural
gas pipelines in the United States that deliver 99.9998 per cent
of their products safely and reliably every day.
•Pipeline Spills pollute environment
•Refining Tar Sands oil
• It will not hurt farmers and harm crop efficiency
• It will contribute $20 billion to U.S economy
Sources Cited
• Boost energy and nations economic security.
http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xlpipeline
Sources CIted
http://keystone-xl.com/about/jobs-and-economic-benefits/
priceofoil.org/content/uploads/.../CU_KeystoneXL_090711_FIN2.pdf
www.buildxlnow.org/issue
Figure 1. Jobs for U.S. with Keystone
Pipeline. Picture from U.S. Chamber
of Commerce.
Figure 2. Workers remove a large
clamp from a section of pipe during
construction of the Gulf Coast Project
pipeline in Prague, Oklahoma.
Picture from Wall Street Journal.
Final Position
In conclusion, the Keystone Pipeline will be
beneficial to the United States. It will add more
jobs to the economy, as well as lower gas prices.
We support the Keystone Pipeline and so should
you!
Figure 3. Tar sands in Alberta, Canada,
which would supply oil for the Keystone
XL pipeline through the U.S. Picture
from NPR.
Figure 4. Accumulated CO2
damages to society in billions of
dollars based on 2013 U.S.
Government data for “social cost
of carbon”. Picture from
Vancouver Observer.