Queensland State Leader Guarantees No Job Losses Under $62 Billion Clean Energy Transition
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has moved to assuage concerns that Australians could lose jobs under her government’s ambitious clean energy plan.
The Labor government’s A$62 billion (US$39.59 billion) plan includes a promise to create 100,000 new jobs by 2040.
“Every worker who’s currently working at a coal-fired power station will absolutely be guaranteed a job as we move into this clean, green industrial revolution,” she told reporters on Sept. 29.
“We’re building two new hydro dams, a huge transmission grid that goes up and down the east coast of our state, and there will be billions of dollars of investment in wind farms, solar farms, in hydrogen, and in batteries,” she said….