Dutton’s radioactive plan will kill renewable energy jobs. Let’s invest in a jobs rich future.
Across the country, workers are installing solar panels on houses, installing new large scale solar and wind towers, and putting up new transmission lines. By 2030 there will be more than 1.8 million people employed in renewable energy jobs, growing to over 2.2 million by 2050.
Dutton’s radioactive plan will kill these jobs. And he has no plan to replace them.
The average 1GW nuclear reactor needs approximately 3,500 jobs at the construction peak and approximately 400 direct jobs once its operating. However, because the regulation, building and development phases are riddled with so many problems, those jobs are not guaranteed. Even if they are built, we won’t see the first power station job until at least 2040.
