Study estimates green-jobs potential in Ontario
Robert Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, is well-known is U.S. green-job circles. In 2008 he co-authored the reports “Job Opportunities for the Green Economy” and “Green Recovery,” both of which are seen as influencing the Obama administration’s current focus on green-job creation. Pollin was commissioned to write up a study of green-job opportunities in Ontario as a result of the province’s new Green Energy Act. His conclusion is that 90,000 well-paying jobs could be created and sustained over 10 years. In an interview, Pollin commended Ontario for its aggressive action compared to some U.S. states. “In Massachusetts, we’re talking it up all the time but not doing anything,” he said. “By contrast, this measure in Ontario is far more serious than anything people talk about here. Just the fact of having an aggressive policy and explicitly linking it to employment creation is excellent.”
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Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
