Forget Keystone XL, The Clean Energy Sector Has Jobs
President Obama had plenty of good reasons for rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Nov. 6, but here's one more reason that made it all the more logical:
We're already creating lots of energy jobs in America: Clean, renewable energy jobs in manufacturing, construction and a myriad other fields.
Nearly 10,000 jobs were announced in clean energy and clean transportation during the third quarter of this year alone, according to Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2's) just-released clean energy jobs report. You can read the full Clean Energy Works for US Q3 report here and see state-by-state jobs data here.
These are good-paying jobs that aren't limited to a pipe snaking through a tiny sliver of environmentally-sensitive land in our nation's heartland.
These are jobs like the 250 new openings announced in Jackson, Miss. in September at the new Seraphim solar panel factory (yes you read that right -- Jackson, Miss.)
These are jobs like the 100 positions announced with a new wind farm in San Juan County in Utah a few months ago, and the thousands of new jobs expected over the next 10 years that come with the recent announcement of a new SolarCity regional headquarters in Salt Lake City.
And in Texas, that bastion of the oil industry, these are jobs like the 400 positions announced in the third quarter at the Rattlesnake Wind Farm and the Hale Community Wind Project in the western part of the state.
Forget Keystone XL, The Clean Energy Sector Has Jobs | Bob Keefe
President Obama had plenty of good reasons for rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Nov. 6, but here's one more reason that made it all the more logical:
We're already creating lots of energy jobs in America: Clean, renewable energy jobs in manufacturing, construction and a myriad other fields.
Nearly 10,000 jobs were announced in clean energy and clean transportation during the third quarter of this year alone, according to Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2's) just-released clean energy jobs report. You can read the full Clean Energy Works for US Q3 report here and see state-by-state jobs data here.
These are good-paying jobs that aren't limited to a pipe snaking through a tiny sliver of environmentally-sensitive land in our nation's heartland.
These are jobs like the 250 new openings announced in Jackson, Miss. in September at the new Seraphim solar panel factory (yes you read that right -- Jackson, Miss.)
These are jobs like the 100 positions announced with a new wind farm in San Juan County in Utah a few months ago, and the thousands of new jobs expected over the next 10 years that come with the recent announcement of a new SolarCity regional headquarters in Salt Lake City.
And in Texas, that bastion of the oil industry, these are jobs like the 400 positions announced in the third quarter at the Rattlesnake Wind Farm and the Hale Community Wind Project in the western part of the state.
Forget Keystone XL, The Clean Energy Sector Has Jobs | Bob Keefe