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Recent Media Releases
New report shows how Ontario’s plan to retrofit buildings and fight climate change can create over 30,000 good green jobs.
Report lays out recommendations to ensure that the jobs created are good jobs that go to those who need them most.
BLUE GREEN CANADA, CLEAN ECONOMY ALLIANCE and ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE
For Immediate Release: April 19, 2017
Renewable energy jobs can surge in Alberta
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Report says if properly supported now, Alberta’s renewable energy sector will create enough jobs to absorb coal labour force
November 17, 2016 — CALGARY — Ramping up investment in Alberta’s renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors will create more than enough job opportunities to absorb workers from the coal generation industry into Alberta’s economy.
Climate Plans must include Just Transition for environment and economy to thrive
For Immediate Release February 29, TORONTO – Today BLUE GREEN CANADA, a national alliance of Canadian labour unions, environmental and civil society organizations, released a statement encouraging the participants at Thursday’s First Minister’s Meeting in Vancouver to follow through on their advocacy for just transition in Paris with actions at home.
Majority of Canadians support investments in clean technology for job creation and a more diverse economy less dependent on oil: Poll
Majority of Canadians support investments in clean technology for job creation and a more diverse economy less dependent on oil: Poll
For Immediate Release
OCTOBER 15, TORONTO - Eighty per cent of Canadians say the federal government should be doing more to support clean technologies that help create jobs, according to a new Research House poll.
Transit Plan adds $4.5 Billion to GDP and 44,000 person years of employment for Metro Vancouver
VANCOUVER- Good Jobs, Clean Skies, a co-publication of Green Jobs BC and Blue Green Canada, finds that the Mayors’ Council Transit and Transportation Plan will generate thousands of jobs, significantly cut traffic congestion, and reduce the environmental impact of transportation in the region.