{"id":6464,"date":"2016-11-09T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2016-11-09T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:17:59","slug":"coal-digestion-ctd-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/09\/coal-digestion-ctd-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Digestion, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing this thread<\/a><\/b>, the guardian <\/b><\/i>is reporting <\/a>that Australian unions are acknowledging the end of coal as a common fossil fuel, and are now advocating for a “just transition”:<\/p>\n

Australian unions have thrown their weight behind a transition away from coal-generated electricity, calling for a new statutory authority to manage a \u201cjust transition\u201d, supporting workers and communities that rely on fossil fuel-related jobs.<\/p>\n

A policy discussion paper written by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) said a planned closure of coal power stations \u2013 along with both a jobs and energy plan for the country \u2013 would \u201ccreate a more prosperous and diversified economy\u201d.<\/p>\n

It called for an independent statutory body, Energy<\/a> Transition Australia (ETA), to be created inside the environment and energy portfolio, which would be responsible for managing an orderly move to a clean energy economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is an important step in that it’s important not to just toss people aside, now that their industry has been identified as a negative rather than a positive. There’s nothing dishonorable about paying money to recompense those engaged in these businesses, whether as workers, management, or owners – because at one time these businesses were crucial to our growth and survival. Blame begins when knowledge becomes available – it does not extend back before then.<\/p>\n

(h\/t Treehugger.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing this thread, the guardian is reporting that Australian unions are acknowledging the end of coal as a common fossil fuel, and are now advocating for a “just transition”: Australian unions have thrown their weight behind a transition away from coal-generated electricity, calling for a new statutory authority to manage \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}