June 17, 2021

As jobs in fossil fuels decline amid a shifting global landscape, rapid growth in Canada’s clean energy sector will more than make up the difference. So finds the modelling report, The New Reality, from Clean Energy Canada and Navius Research.

Canada’s clean energy sector already employs 430,500 people—more than the entire real estate sector—and by 2030, that number is projected to grow almost 50% to 639,200 under the federal government’s new climate plan. At the same time, Canada’s fossil fuel sector will see a 9% drop in employment. In terms of raw numbers, the 208,700 new clean energy jobs added by 2030 far exceed the 125,800 lost in fossil fuels.

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With the economic devastation that has followed from the Covid-19 pandemic, investing in clean energy may actually help alleviate this financial strain on the Canadian government and its citizens.

It has been noted that in order to make this a success, the government must:

1. Increase carbon pricing to build funds for clean energy solutions

2. Accelerate investment in clean energy solutions to create jobs

3. Build a globally competitive workforce for the clean energy industry

In May, the European Union announced a robust green recovery package, which we can follow.

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You may be surprised to learn that the smoke from a wood stove, a wood burning fireplace, or an open campfire, is not at all good for you. In fact, in some countries, like the U.K., wood-burning produces more than double the air pollution that results from traffic exhaust. In India, almost 20% of its deaths in a year are caused by air pollution and much of that pollution is from burning wood to cook food and heat homes.

Some of the newer models are more efficient and less polluting, but with the polluting smoke produced, they are certainly not good for you or anyone else nearby. There are alternatives.

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