GREEN: Oil and gas workers will bear brunt of Trudeau government's 'Just Transition' cdnpoli
It also means ending or sharply curtailing the production of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas, and shifting from internal-combustion transportation to electrified-vehicle transportation. But based on experience with such efforts abroad, and estimates of the potential for energy transitions to happen rapidly , this “Transition” will be more like an energy system traffic accident akin to what’s happening in Europe as a result of that continent’s effort at a “Just Transition.
The second aspect of the transition applies to people. In theory, people who make their living with GHG-emitting activities will somehow be justly transitioned into other activities, perhaps building wind and solar power facilities or driving recycling trucks or pushing brooms for companies that do so.Article content
For a recent example consider the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the United States — a massive plan to purportedly create green jobs by building up the U.S. renewable energy sector. A study done in 2020 found that each US$1 million in new green spending created only 15 new jobs over five years. Those jobs were primarily urban and went to people with pre-existing “green skills” . Half the jobs were in construction or waste management, and nearly all were manual labour positions.
Nevertheless, the new buzz-phrase is here, so it’s time for a Just Transition to Build Back Better, or something like that. If only government spent more time proposing rational policies and less time conjuring up buzz-phrases and acronyms. But that’s probably Too Much To Ask.Share this article in your social network
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