Clean energy one of Canada’s fastest-growing industries: report

Canada’s clean-energy sector is growing faster than the economy as a whole and is rivalling some of the more well known industries for jobs, a new report shows.

People talk about the clean-technology sector often but clean energy encompasses more than high-tech firms making hydrogen fuel cells and electric cars, said Smith. All told, the study concluded, nearly 300,000 Canadians were directly employed in clean energy in 2017, nearly 100,000 more than Statistics Canada data said worked in mining, quarrying, and oil-and-gas extraction. There are 7.5 times as many people working in clean energy as in forestry and logging.

“We were surprised to find how big the sector is,” she said. “What we found is that we’re missing more than half the picture when we talk about energy in Canada. We think of oil and gas, we think of pipelines, we think of Alberta, and we are missing this clean-energy sector which is in every province across the country.”

globebusiness Even if true, it still is unreliable and makes up 10% of the grid at best, so logic dictates use CLEANER NATURAL GAS as the G 20 recommended as a TRANSITION FUEL while we work on reliable, plentiful clean energy...but that’s not a tax (carbon tax) it’s just common sense.

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