Clean Energy Jobs Now Exceed Oilsands Jobs In Canada

Summerview Wind Farm in southern AlbertaWhich industry employs more Canadians? The oilsands or clean energy?

Guess again.

Employment in Canada’s clean energy sector has jumped 37 per cent in the past five years, says a new report from the think tank Clean Energy Canada, and now exceeds employment in the oilsands.

There were 23,700 people directly employed by the clean energy industry in 2013, compared to 22,340 jobs in the oilsands, the report found. Those green jobs include people employed in clean power production, energy efficiency, biofuels and manufacturing of green energy technologies.

Photo: “Summerview Wind Farm in southern Alberta“ by Green Energy Futures – David Dodge under the license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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