COAL JOBS Sources: - Environment Victoria

By tom

The myth perpetuated by the coal industry that renewables are the enemy of jobs is officially busted! Three times as many Victorians are employed in the solar industry as in coal.

One of these industries is fueling climate change – one has a clean bill of health. It’s not clean energy versus jobs any more, clean energy = jobs!

Source: Clean Energy Council

SITE	EMPLOYEES	NOTES	SOURCE
Hazelwood (power station and mine)	540	Refers also to 300 “alliance contractors”	Source
Loy Yang Power (power station and mine)	550	2/3 of these are shift workers	Source
Loy Yang B	152	Also says up to 40 contractors employed	Source
Yallourn (power station and captive mine)	216		Source: Annual report
Anglesea Power Station	100	Says “around” 100 employees	Source
Energy Brix Power Station	73		Source: Financial report.

We already know that renewables are cleaner and safer than coal. We know that they’re inexhaustible. We now know that renewables are better for jobs than coal.

While others make the switch to renewables, the State Government has banked Victoria’s future on low-grade brown coal, making it harder to build a wind-farm than a coal-fired power plant, slashing support for solar and planning to allocate billions of tonnes of coal.

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COAL JOBSSources:

The myth perpetuated by the coal industry that renewables are the enemy of jobs is officially busted! Three times as many Victorians are employed in the solar industry as in coal.

While others make the switch to renewables, the State Government has banked Victoria’s future on low-grade brown coal, making it harder to build a wind-farm than a coal-fired power plant, slashing support for solar and planning to allocate billions of tonnes of coal.

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