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     Re: Re: Done with them?   
     By: Aaron Thomas to Ron Lauzon on Mon Jan 25 2021 04:49 pm   
      
    > I follow Ted Nugent on Facebook.   
      
   I'm sorry.   
      
    > He was complaining about the Keystone Pipeline cancellation costing   
    > 10,000 jobs in the midst of the pandemic, and Facebook butts in to say   
    > "Independent fact-checkers indicate this informtion is misleading."   
      
   According to the NRDC, "...the project would require fewer than 2,000 two-year   
   construction jobs and that number of jobs would hover around 35 after   
   construction."  Obviously, the bias from the NRDC may provide skewed numbers   
   yet the Austin American-Statesman reports, "TC Energy Corp., the Canadian   
   company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has   
   said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden's executive   
   order. The 11,000 and $2 billion figures cited in the Facebook post are   
   estimates published by the company, but most of the jobs would be temporary."   
      
    > I'm sick of "fact-checkers." They should be called "Fact-arguers." Nobody   
    > can "fact-check" job losses at Keystone except for the HR department at   
    > Keystone. But Facebook will have people believing that Politico knows more   
    > about it than Keystone.   
      
   Actually, any project performed by a large corporation will expose the need to   
   look at the number of employees needed for a project.  In the case of Keystone   
   XL, they need a large number temporary labor to build the pipeline while the   
   need for that labor will dry up the minute the project is complete.    
   Therefore, the only laborers needed for the job would be for maintenance   
   operations, which follows, accurately, the numbers provided by the NRDC.   
      
   I'm happy to see Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms providing a   
   fact-checking opportunity.  It allows people who express "alternative facts"   
   to be given an opportunity to either correct them, demonstrate that they are   
   providing an opinion, or that they are simply communicating from their   
   nether-regions.   
      
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