After oil and gas: Meet Alberta workers making the switch to solar

“At his first job, he made $60,000 a year. In the years that followed, he made a lot of money. He partied. He didn’t vote. He didn’t care much about politics. Something started to change for Taylor as the years went on in the oil patch. He remembers the 2010 BP oil spill as a pivotal moment in his thinking. ‘It was plastered all over the news for days, and I watched this giant catastrophe just unfold in front of our eyes for days on end,’ he said. It was, he remembers, ‘a heartbreaking moment.’ Fast-forward several years, and Taylor is one of thousands of solar workers in Alberta — and one of many who has transitioned out of the fossil fuel sector into renewable energy.”

Sharon J. Riley – The Narwhal – October 2019

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