Earl Blumenauer: “It's very important for us to take a step back and evaluate exactly what the economic employment opportunities are…”

“It's very important for us to take a step back and evaluate exactly what the economic employment opportunities are because things that we do to rebuild and renew America in a sustainable way-- Keystone has a few thousand temporary construction jobs and maybe a handful--I've heard various estimates--a few dozen, a couple hundred permanent jobs and has, as you pointed out, significant environmental consequences. But when we're investing in wind, solar, geothermal, these are areas that are producing far more jobs already and that they are using a sustainable source of energy that pays a continuing dividend over time. This wind is American. This geothermal energy is American. It's renewable, and it doesn't cost us anything.”