How clean coal helps our economic recovery
The next generation of advanced clean coal technologies – those that capture and safely store carbon dioxide (CO2) - will create millions of high-skilled, high-wage jobs for American workers.
But don't just take our word for it. In a report conducted by BBC Research and Consulting, a coalition of key labor groups find that between 5 million and 7 million man-years of employment could be created during construction and a quarter of a million permanent jobs added from deployment of advanced coal-based electricity generation facilities (power plants) equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The groups involved are the Industrial Union Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).
In the video below, Doug Jevons of BBC Research and Consulting explains the new report.
America's energy exigencies, and the fact that in the foreseeable future coal power will continue to play a large role, it seems to be worthy of our attention.
Posted by: american clean coal | February 20, 2009 at 12:02 AM