Citizens -- Voices, Crying in a Wilderness

 The Keystone XL hearings held by the State Department were conducted by Cardno Entrix, which just happens to be employed frequently by TransCanada   Cardno Entrix made sure a large number of construction workers were transported in to the hearings, many from hundreds of miles away, all repeating the same mantra:  this pipeline will give us jobs.
     None of them ever said, we'd like jobs and we also realize that if the pipeline were moved to a safer location, there would be even more jobs.
     None of them ever said, if the pipeline were made of good American steel instead of cheap Indian imports, there would be a lot more jobs.
 
For a close-up of what it was like to testify at the hearings, read this:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/07/how-to-grease-a-pipeline/