Wanted: Steelworkers For Green Jobs, Must Be Energy Independence Oriented
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 12.10.07
"Pennsylvania's Road to Energy Independence," issued by the Blue-Green Action Alliance, a public policy partnership of the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers, said 42,688 jobs could be created in the state for workers who would manufacture components for wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy equipment.
According to the report, stabilizing carbon emissions would require adding 185,00 megawatts of new renewable projects each year, whether solar, wind, biomass or geothermal.
Based on that demand, it then ranked states and counties according to the number of existing firms that could supply the components for the new equipment needed to produce the power.
Pennsylvania ranked sixth, with 2,188 such firms that could produce 19,588 jobs in wind power, 15,767 in solar, 3,911 in biomass and 3,402 in geothermal.
Speakers at the news briefing announcing the report took the opportunity to express support for the energy bill, which likely will come up for a vote in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate this week.
Here's the original Alliance announcement from back in 2006. Here's the Blue-Green Alliance's website, and here's the overall report, including "green jobs" projections for several other states.
Via::Pittsburg Post Gazette, "Energy alliance predicts creation of 40,000 PA. jobs"
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said 42,688 jobs could be created in the state for workers who would manufacture components for wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy equipment.
Could be, but won't. The jobs will go overseas, or to illegal immigrants. The American worker's services are no longer required by the maggots. They get billions, we get the shaft.
The dreaded "no-spell-checker-for-title-bar" stikes again !!!
More good news for green collar jobs. Been waiting 20 years for this. Some folks I know have been working in the green industry for 35 years. Viva la Revolucion (sp?)
>>Viva la Revolucion (sp?)
Close enough for government work. ¡Viva la Revolución!