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Title: Offshore: Oil and gas workers' views on industry conditions and the energy transition
Description: This report shares the testimonies of workers in the industry and their perspectives and priorities in the looming energy transition. The survey results show that morale is low amongst the workforce, who feel they are bearing the brunt of an industry in decline. But these workers are willing to retrain and move to new sectors. They want secure and well-paid work that makes use of their skills and experience.
Identifier: Oil-Gas-Workers-Report-Final-Web.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156050

Title: A Plan for green buildings, jobs and prosperity for Ontario
Description: This report looks at how Ontario could replace fossil gas for everything from home heating to industrial uses as part of a plan to dramatically reduce Ontario's greenhouse gas emissions. It also outlines how embracing a pathway toward reducing gas use can create good green jobs in Ontario in everything from home retrofits to deploying renewable energy. It explains various mechanisms that can be used to make this pathway economically and environmentally successful for Canada's largest province.
Identifier: Fossil-Gas-Report-2021-sep-15-v_01.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156047

Title: Canada's Energy Sector: Status, evolution, revenue, employment, production forecasts, emissions and implications for emissions reduction
Description: This report by veteran earth scientist David Hughes analyzes the state of the oil and gas sector in Canada and finds that while production is increasing, jobs and revenues paid to government are decreasing. The report finds the oil and gas sector alone will cause Canada to fail to meet its Paris Agreement target of a 40 per cent reduction by 2030, set by Prime Minister Trudeau at President Biden's recent climate summit Hughes finds the sector will also cause Canada to miss its "net zero" target by 2050 as laid out in Bill C-12. It details how the sector no longer contributes like it once did to government revenues in Canada, and jobs in the sector are down by more than 50,000 from their 2014 peak and are unlikely to return—even with production at record highs. The report concludes that continuing on the country's current path for the oil and gas sector makes meeting Canada's emissions-reduction targets impossible. It recommends a stark change in direction to meet the targets, including a rethink of oil and gas exports and the development of a plan for the future that includes a just transition for workers. It also finds that planned expansions of the TMX and Line 3 pipelines are not needed because Canada already has enough pipeline capacity to transport the amount of oil the Canada Energy Regulator is projecting for export through 2050.
Identifier: REPORT_ccpa-bc-cmp_canadas-energy-sector.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156033

Title: Tracking the Energy Transition 2021: The New Reality
Description: As jobs in fossil fuels decline amid a shifting global landscape, rapid growth in Canada's clean energy sector will more than make up the difference. So finds the modelling report, The New Reality, from Clean Energy Canada and Navius Research, which forecasts changes in jobs, GDP and investment in Canadian energy between 2020 and 2030. Canada's clean energy sector already employs 430,500 people—more than the entire real estate sector—and by 2030, that number is projected to grow almost 50% to 639,200 under the federal government's new climate plan. At the same time, Canada's fossil fuel sector will see a 9% drop in employment. In terms of raw numbers, the 208,700 new clean energy jobs added by 2030 far exceed the 125,800 lost in fossil fuels. Canada's clean energy sector is made up of companies and jobs that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption, or making low-carbon technologies. It includes a wide range of jobs, from technicians working in renewable energy generation, like wind and solar, to the worker assembling battery packs for new electric buses to the insulator retrofitting homes so they waste less energy.
Identifier: Report_CEC_CleanJobs2021.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156032

Title: Energy Transition: Are we winning?
Description: Is the World Really Moving Away from Fossil Fuels? Examining the Evidence. During 2015 and 2016, a number of significant public and political figures have made statements suggesting that the world is "moving away from fossil fuels," and that the battle against greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and climate change is therefore being won. Such statements are frequently accompanied by assurances that the transition to renewable energy and a low-carbon economy is both "inevitable" and already well underway, and that economic growth will soon be "decoupled" from dangerously high annual emissions levels. This optimism has also been accepted by a section of the environmental movement, and even by some unions.
Identifier: TUED-Working-Paper-9_Web-1.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156030

Title: Women in Alberta's Energy Transition: A review of barriers to participation and leadership
Description: Alberta's energy economy is transitioning, and a common goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the province is emerging. These changes offer the opportunity to design a new economy that works for everyone, and gender equity must be a priority in this transition. Not only are women vastly underrepresented in Alberta's current energy industry, but they are also underpaid. In fact, gender inequity in Alberta's energy sector is one of the leading contributors to Canada's overall wage gap. In this report, we review the existing literature and diverse perspectives on the barriers to women's participation and leadership in Alberta's energy transition so they can be considered within the larger context of net-zero. The goal is to provide a foundation of understanding for Alberta's emerging energy sector, so that past experiences can be considered to help build a more equitable and inclusive future.
Identifier: 2021-10-14-womeninalbertasenergytransition-pembina.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156024

Title: The Big Cleanup: How enforcing the Polluter Pay principle can unlock Alberta's next great jobs boom
Description: Using the AER's own data, our report reveals that 4 out of 5 unreclaimed oil and gas wells in Alberta are already past their economic limit, the "best before date" where they still have enough future revenue coming out of the ground to fund their own cleanup. We explore the story of one of them—drilled more than 30 years ago on our co-author's family's land—to demonstrate how companies are able to profit for decades without setting aside anything for cleanup. Digging deeper, we reveal that an astonishing 49% of oil and gas companies licensed by the regulator are classified as insolvent through the Licensee Liability Rating system.
Identifier: 6ca287_2ffe90ca7c354d3eac43b5f141b6ec8a.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156022

Title: Re-Energizing Canada: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future
Description: Commissioned by Natural Resources Canada in Fall 2016 Written by 72 scholars from all 10 provinces Draws on data, peer-reviewed research and other relevant documents Offers suggestions on how Canadian governments, companies and citizens can advance decarbonisation in a manner coherent with the Paris Agreement After reviewing hundreds of articles and reports, and analysing much data, we are convinced more than ever that Canada has an opportunity to drive innovation and deliver benefits now and into the future by tapping our vast renewable energy potential and know-how to make the transition away from fossil-fuel-based energy systems.
Identifier: ReEnergizing_Final.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156020

Title: Making Kyoto work: A transition strategy for Canadian energy workers
Description: Making Kyoto Work: A Transition Strategy for Canadian Energy Workers finds that there are tremendous economic opportunities in becoming more energy efficient and developing new technologies--in alternative fuels, fuel-efficient vehicles, and in wind, geothermal, and tidal power. The study develops a transition strategy that allows Canada to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments and at the same time provide transition support and employment for energy workers who lose their jobs. Dale Marshall, a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the CCPA and author of the study, estimates that 12,800 Canadian energy workers will lose their jobs over the next 10 years if Canada acts upon its Kyoto commitments, but over the same period, 16,000 new energy jobs will be created. Marshall says that "new jobs won't necessarily require the same skills or be in the same region, which is why we need a strategy to help workers with transition."
Identifier: making_kyoto_work.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156019

Title: Facing fossil fuels' future: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers in Canada's Energy and Labour Transitions
Description: Climate Action Network - Réseau action climat (CAN-Rac) Canada and Blue Green Canada launched their new joint report, Facing Fossil Fuels' Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers in Canada's Energy and Labour Transitions. Alarm bells are ringing louder and louder on the need to keep warming to 1.5°C to maintain a livable planet. This means stopping the expansion and scaling down production of oil and gas; a recent report in the journal Nature calculated that Canada needs to keep 83% of fossil fuels in the ground to keep 1.5°C within reach. Facing Fossil Fuels' Future explores the outlook for workers currently employed by the oil and gas industry under a 1.5°C-aligned pathway, and the new careers that need to be created within the decade to offer these workers opportunities in other sectors. Teika Newton, Managing Director of CAN-Rac Canada, shared an overview of the report alongside Jamie Kirkpatrick, Program Manager at Blue Green Canada, an alliance between Canadian labour unions, environmental and civil society organizations to advocate for working people and the environment. Meg Gingrich of United Steelworkers and Ken Bondy of Unifor shared their reflections on the topic.
Identifier: Facing-Fossil-Fuels-Future-October-2021.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156013