{"id":1217,"date":"2012-01-28T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2012-01-28T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:59:59","slug":"keystone-xl-jobs-claims-draw-complaint-to-sec-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/keystone-xl-jobs-claims-draw-complaint-to-sec-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL Jobs Claims Draw Complaint To SEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress Green has learned that TransCanada, the foreign tar sands company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is facing a potential inquiry into whether it deliberately deceived investors by inflating the job-creation potential of the project. Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC over TransCanada\u2019s \u201cfalse or misleading statements about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the complaint, Greenpeace shows evidence from TransCanada\u2019s Canadian filings and the State Department that the project would involve fewer than 1000 in-state jobs, and around 6000 total jobs. This evidence is contrasted with TransCanada\u2019s TRP repeated public pronouncements that pipeline construction would involve 20,000 American jobs:<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2012\/01\/26\/412724\/breaking-transcanadas-dirty-keystone-xl-jobs-claims-draw-sec-complaint\/\">BREAKING: TransCanadas Dirty Keystone XL Jobs Claims Draw Complaint To SEC | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress Green has learned that TransCanada, the foreign tar sands company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is facing a potential inquiry into whether it deliberately deceived investors by inflating the job-creation potential of the project. Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC over TransCanada\u2019s \u201cfalse or misleading statements about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,257,22],"tags":[36,407,804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}