Well you see, every yard of the pipe was to have its own special attendent for life, with the occasional taco truck for the guys who 'aren't' *wink* Mexican who were gonna be doing the actual work south of the Canadian border for $5pr/hr
Nope. Try 1,000 in construction phase and 50ish full time. Construction would be completed in '23. Pipeline construction is temperary work, those thousand workers will move on.