As Big Oil make record profits, workers are demanding a "just" transition to renewable energy jobs and the reinvestment of profits into communities not shareholders.
Offshore workers want more help, voice in clean energy shift Calls for higher taxation of fossil-fuel industry profits Developing-nation oil and gas producers also need to plan By Jack Graham LONDON, March 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Scott Agnew worked on deep sea oil and gas tankers and cargo boats in the 1980s, he used to count whales and dolphins for conservationists' surveys on his voyages around the world. Based in Dundee, Scotland, many of his jobs over the years have been for the offshore fossil fuel industry, including on drillships and ships supplying oil rigs.
Major new report backed by trade unions and climate groups calls for revamped approach to decarbonising UK fossil fuel industry, including greater role for public ownership