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Clean-Energy Round Table
Key marginal seat MP Steve Irons returns to Parliament next week to vote on the ETS. But GetUp has secured him for our Clean-Energy Forum this Thursday.
This is our last chance for us to ask him to be a clean-energy jobs champion.
What: Clean-Energy round table with industry leaders
Where: Victoria Park Bowling Club, 18 Kent Street, Victoria Park.
When:Thursday 12th of November, 7 30pm
RSVP below!
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Local members are already on the ground in Perth - join them!
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Key facts about ReEnergise Australia
Q: How does the climate crisis link to jobs?
Wind farms don’t build themselves, and solar panels don’t install themselves. The CSIRO reckons there are 230,000 – 340,000 Australian jobs to be created if we move to renewable energy.
Q: What sort of jobs are clean energy jobs?
The gearboxes in wind-farms are very similar to the gearboxes made for Holden cars. Wind turbines are up to 80m tall; that’s a lot of sheet metal to be made and welded.
And every solar panel needs to be screwed into someone’s roof and installed by an electrician.
Of course all this work is going to mean thousands of project managers, industrial designers, architects, finance workers. And then of course there’s the scientists in research and development and all the people who will teach new skills to workers in TAFEs and colleges and on the job training.
Check out www.cleanenergyjobs.com.au for videos and examples
Q: Where do these figures come from?
There are currently three major reports that we know of which explain how responding the climate crisis will create thousands of jobs:
CSIRO – Growing the Green Collar Economy 2008
The Australian Conservation Foundation and ACTU – Green Gold Rush 2009
The Climate Institute –
Clean Energy Jobs and Investment in Regional Australia 2009
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