Mining

• Interior will receive $200 million to scrutinize climate change and its relationship to wildfires and $450 million for a federal jobs program to clean up the tens of thousands of abandoned mines and oil and gas wells nationwide. / CleanTechnica
• Biden's once-in-a-generation effort to tackle climate change and create jobs could kill jobs, too, specifically the steady, fixed-location work provided by coal mines and power plants. / Politico
• Labor groups are already growing nervous that Biden's plan will eliminate the kind of steady, fixed-location jobs provided by coal mines or fossil fuel power plants, and instead will lead to temporary construction jobs that require mobility. / Politico
• Accomplishment would generate about 3.1 million full-time jobs by 2035 and 5.5 million by 2050 as workers find new jobs with manufacturers and with developers of clean energy technologies or associated industries like computer chip manufacturing, silicon mining, and steel production. / Schwartzreport
• Americans as a whole will have more jobs, but jobs lost in coal will be particularly acute, approaching zero in 2035 and geographically concentrated around plants and mines. / Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology
• President Biden's plan includes an immediate up-front investment of $16 billion that will put hundreds of thousands to work in union jobs plugging oil and gas wells and restoring and reclaiming abandoned coal, hardrock, and uranium mines. / The White House
• The coal mining and oil and gas industries, particularly, would lose up to 1,100 jobs by 2035. / NZ Herald
• Coal mining and the oil and gas sectors could lose 600 to 1100 jobs by 2035. / Stuff
• Deep-sea mining could generate up to $20 billion in annual revenue for Norway towards 2050 - compared to around $61 billion from oil and gas in 2019 - and create about 20,000 jobs. / News18
• In Queensland, all parts of mining (coal, as well as gas and other resources) are projected to fall by 7,400 jobs to 2020. / The Australia Institute
• New research has found that if climate change goes unchecked, it would cost Australia $3.4 trillion and almost 900,000 jobs by 2070, dwarfing the impact of the coronavirus recession and devastating key industries such as tourism and mining. / Brisbane Times
• Global trends, such as the transition to clean energy and a shift in China's economic focus away from infrastructure development to new technologies, could dampen demand for South African mining commodities in the years ahead. / McKinsey & Company
• If the climate change blueprint is implemented appropriately and with sufficient provision for vulnerable areas, 2.1 million new jobs will be created in the EU by 2050. / Government Europa
• The CuMo Project could create as many as 5,000 jobs during the mine construction phases and 1,000 jobs for 100 years during production. / American CuMo Mining Corporation
• A greater proficiency in using data mining and visualization tools will likely lead to higher satisfaction with project outcomes. / @bobehayes
• The new approach to mining and energy generation could create 87 million jobs in 10 years. / Mining.com
• Almost 80% of jobs in Australian mining will be enhanced or redesigned due to technology within the next five years. / Minerals Council of Australia
• Coal consumption in the U.S. has dropped almost 42% since 2005; coal mining jobs will likely disappear in the next decade. / Parade
• The adoption of digital and automation technologies in the mining, oil and gas sectors has the potential to add $74 billion to the Australian economy and create 80,000 new jobs by 2030. / Space Connect Online
• With the unemployment rate in South Africa edging up to 29.1 percent in Q3 2019, its highest level since comparable data began in Q1 2008, key jobs sectors including mining and the industrial sector are expected to continue shedding jobs at unprecedented rates in 2020. / Independent Online
• In Poland, coal mining is a major employer, representing 5% jobs, while in other countries coal accounts for less than 1% of jobs and largely concerns employees that will be close to retirement by 2030. / Jeremy Rifkin
• The overall net jobs benefit in India comes with sectoral differences: All the sectors in the economy, except the mining industry, will see more employment by 2030. / IndiaSpend-Journalism India |Data Journalism India|Investigative Journalism-IndiaSpend

Last updated: 09 May 2021