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As Coal Mines Close, Displaced Miners Find Work in Renewable Energy Boom (capitalandmain.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As Coal Mines Close, Displaced Miners Find Work in Renewable Energy Boom::A battery startup in West Virginia and the mineworkers union may have a blueprint for those left behind in the energy transition.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The whole “clean energy will take your jobs” rhetoric was indeed complete BS.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Automation already took most of the mine jobs. The majority of US coal comes from the west where mines are on the surface, equipment is larger, and the coal has lower sulfur. If coal ramped up back to full production, the mines would hire back only a small fraction of the displaced workers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Clean energy took their jobs...

And the workers....

And moved them to safer, cleaner, and generally better environments