TV Ads: Pipelines, Jobs and Growth
Mark Green
Posted April 4, 2017
We’ve posted a couple of television ads to the Energy Tomorrow YouTube channel underscoring the jobs and economic good associated with building pipelines that bring safe, affordable natural gas to American consumers and businesses. Take a look:
Kelly represents some of the work opportunity generated by the natural gas and oil industry’s long supply chain – building the pipeline network to bring cleaner-burning natural gas to homes, businesses and industries. As she says, these are well-paying jobs, and hers means economic support for a household:
“I love working on the pipeline because it’s how I provide for my girls, it’s how I feed my family. … As a single mom, I have to provide for my girls. I have two daughters that I have to make sure have food on their table, make sure they have a house over their head, and that’s what pipeline does for me and many others. It’s a great living.”
America needs more infrastructure to ensure that the benefits of the U.S. energy renaissance are fully realized across the country. Benefits include affordable energy but also the jobs created to build pipelines, processing stations and other projects. Jobs like Kelly’s.
A second ad connects the work of Matt, a pipeline welder, with safe infrastructure construction and the broader economic boost provided by energy projects. As the video emphasizes, building infrastructure is good for American energy and good for the American economy, potentially adding hundreds of thousands of jobs while boosting growth.
Energy infrastructure is America’s backbone. White House support for expedited pipeline environmental reviews and approvals is welcome leadership in an area that’s critically important to sustaining and growing the U.S. energy renaissance. Working with the private sector, Washington should pursue policies that allow timely siting and permitting of oil and natural gas infrastructure projects, providing a path for continued development of the national energy delivery system that benefits everyone.
About The Author
Mark Green joined API after a career in newspaper journalism, including 16 years as national editorial writer for The Oklahoman in the paper’s Washington bureau. Previously, Mark was a reporter, copy editor and sports editor at an assortment of newspapers. He earned his journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma and master’s in journalism and public affairs from American University. He and his wife Pamela have two grown children and six grandchildren.