Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S. Source: Bloomberg The number of U.S.

[westwall]

I certainly know more than you ever will. Yes.

Nah, I mean more like you know everything about anyone's views and allegiances and what predefined category you’re going to pigeon hole them into after a few syllables.

Yes. With enviro whacko's it is comparatively easy. You all parrot the same.

Sure, I could tell you were really deep like that.

Like I said. You all are simply one trick ponies. I actually read books and things like that to educate myself. It's amazing what one can learn if one actually tries.

That may be your interpretation of yourself.

Ahhh, now the 10 year old arguments show up. The facts in evidence say otherwise.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Nah, I mean more like you know everything about anyone's views and allegiances and what predefined category you’re going to pigeon hole them into after a few syllables.

Yes. With enviro whacko's it is comparatively easy. You all parrot the same.

Sure, I could tell you were really deep like that.

Like I said. You all are simply one trick ponies. I actually read books and things like that to educate myself. It's amazing what one can learn if one actually tries.

That may be your interpretation of yourself.

Ahhh, now the 10 year old arguments show up. The facts in evidence say otherwise.

There's not any conversation or argument being made here really, you immediately rendered that impossible. Have a nice day.

 

[Old Rocks]

Fenton, Westwall has been predicting cooling ever since he first started posting on this board. He claims to be a Phd Geologist, then constantly denigrates almost every geologist that is alive today.

 

[westwall]

Fenton, Westwall has been predicting cooling ever since he first started posting on this board. He claims to be a Phd Geologist, then constantly denigrates almost every geologist that is alive today.

Wrong. I denigrate the really crappy climatologists. Get your insults right.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S.

Source: Bloomberg

The number of U.S. jobs in solar energy overtook those in oil and natural gas extraction for the first time last year, helping drive a global surge in employment in the clean-energy business as fossil-fuel companies faltered.

Employment in the U.S. solar business grew 12 times faster than overall job creation, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report on Wednesday. About 8.1 million people worldwide had jobs in the clean energy in 2015, up from 7.7 million in 2014, according to the industry group based in Abu Dhabi.

Fed by state initiatives to spur clean energy and innovative financing measures offered by companies such as SolarCity Corp., developers are adding workers at record rates to install rooftop panels. Oil and gas producers by contrast have slashed 351,410 jobs worldwide since prices began to slide in the middle of 2014, according to Houston-based Graves & Co.

“The continued job growth in the renewable energy sector is significant because it stands in contrast to trends across the energy sector,” said Adnan Amin, director-general of Irena, which is based in Abu Dhabi. “This increase is being driven by declining renewable energy technology costs and enabling policy frameworks. We expect this to continue as the case for renewables strengthens and countries move to achieve climate targets.”

Read more: Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S.


Shell Cuts 2,200 More Jobs to Withstand Lower-for-Longer Oil

Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut 2,200 more jobs, taking the tally of losses to 12,500 from 2015 to 2016 as Europe’s biggest oil producer continues to adjust to the slump in prices.

At least 5,000 jobs will be cut this year, the company said in an e-mailed statement. These reductions are in response to oil prices staying “lower for longer,” and a result of the acquisition of BG Group Plc earlier this year, said Paul Goodfellow, Shell’s vice president for the U.K. and Ireland. Shell and BG employed about 94,600 people at the end of 2015.

“These are tough times for our industry,” Goodfellow said in the statement. “We have to take further difficult decisions to ensure Shell remains competitive through the current prolonged downturn.”

The industry is cutting deeper despite oil’s 80 percent recovery since January. Prices remain about half the level of two years ago and producers’ earnings have been pummeled, credit ratings cut and borrowings increased to maintain dividend payouts. To help protect their balance sheets, companies have deferred or canceled billions of dollars of projects, renegotiated contracts with suppliers and eliminated thousands of jobs.

“Oil has recovered but is still below $50 and companies aren’t able to cover their dividends at that level,” said Jason Gammel, a London-based analyst at Jefferies International Ltd. “They are doing all they can and more cost-cutting measures are likely.”

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Shell Cuts 2,200 More Jobs to Withstand Lower-for-Longer Oil

Hell, investment into America built our freeways, highways, dams, invented the internet, and now makes solar a super employer! Loserterianism...Just keeps losing and losing! Too bad there's so many brainwashed assholes in this country. Yes, go ahead and attack solar idiots! It will lift the unemployment rate up 2-3% when you do and probably send us into a recession.

From a good 'ol boy from Taxus.

 

[Markle]

We'll have to put big oil in it's [its] propper [proper] place just like we had to do with tobacco.

Isn't that the job of the market place?

 

[Markle]

Until it runs out of where it's relatively easy, inexpensive enough, and convenient to get to. We're running up against the end of that era. I did marine seismic oil exploration back in the 80's. When you're dipping into tar sands, lobbying your ass off to influence legislation, propagandizing against science, etc., big oil knows where it's at. Will it do all it can to wring as much out of us and the planet as it can for as long as it can? Sure. Question is will we still feel like we need to annex the middle east and engage in that expense once we've moved on to other energy.

How do you propose we move on from plastics, rubber tires, fan belts, asphalt highways, lubricants, etc, etc, etc?

 

[Old Rocks]

Why do you suppose that we will do that? If we are not pumping oil for burning in ICE's, there will still be a market for oil as an industrial stock, just one that is far less than today's market.

 

[Fenton Lum]

We'll have to put big oil in it's [its] propper [proper] place just like we had to do with tobacco.

Isn't that the job of the market place?

Look around, your market place is not free and your govt has been usurped by corporate power.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Until it runs out of where it's relatively easy, inexpensive enough, and convenient to get to. We're running up against the end of that era. I did marine seismic oil exploration back in the 80's. When you're dipping into tar sands, lobbying your ass off to influence legislation, propagandizing against science, etc., big oil knows where it's at. Will it do all it can to wring as much out of us and the planet as it can for as long as it can? Sure. Question is will we still feel like we need to annex the middle east and engage in that expense once we've moved on to other energy.

How do you propose we move on from plastics, rubber tires, fan belts, asphalt highways, lubricants, etc, etc, etc?

If we put our minds to it we could, hemp could do much of this for example. But you digress, question is will we still feel like we need to annex the middle east and engage in that expense once we've moved on to other energy. We should be including the cost of endless war and occupation of the middle east into our fossil fuels cost to society.

 

[westwall]

We'll have to put big oil in it's [its] propper [proper] place just like we had to do with tobacco.

Isn't that the job of the market place?

Look around, your market place is not free and your govt has been usurped by corporate power.

Look around, it's those very same corporate interests that are pushing the fraud of AGW so that they can truly impoverish you. Trillions of dollars they want to take from the people of this planet to lower the global temp by one degree in 100 years. Maybe. The only people who make out like bandits are Goldman Sachs, who want to be the bankers for the whole fraud and of course the oil companies who have been looking forward to being able to charge you for nothing.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Jesus. You know everything don't you.

I certainly know more than you ever will. Yes.

Nah, I mean more like you know everything about anyone's views and allegiances and what predefined category you’re going to pigeon hole them into after a few syllables.

Yes. With enviro whacko's it is comparatively easy. You all parrot the same.

Sure, I could tell you were really deep like that.

Like I said. You all are simply one trick ponies. I actually read books and things like that to educate myself. It's amazing what one can learn if one actually tries.

Actually "enviro whacko's" is the the language of "one trick ponies" strict dualism thinking.

 

[Fenton Lum]

We'll have to put big oil in it's [its] propper [proper] place just like we had to do with tobacco.

Isn't that the job of the market place?

Look around, your market place is not free and your govt has been usurped by corporate power.

Look around, it's those very same corporate interests that are pushing the fraud of AGW so that they can truly impoverish you. Trillions of dollars they want to take from the people of this planet to lower the global temp by one degree in 100 years. Maybe. The only people who make out like bandits are Goldman Sachs, who want to be the bankers for the whole fraud and of course the oil companies who have been looking forward to being able to charge you for nothing.

Pfffffffffft, Goldman Sachs is doing quite well under the current paradigm including socialism provided by taxpayers.

 

[martybegan]

Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S.

Source: Bloomberg

The number of U.S. jobs in solar energy overtook those in oil and natural gas extraction for the first time last year, helping drive a global surge in employment in the clean-energy business as fossil-fuel companies faltered.

Employment in the U.S. solar business grew 12 times faster than overall job creation, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report on Wednesday. About 8.1 million people worldwide had jobs in the clean energy in 2015, up from 7.7 million in 2014, according to the industry group based in Abu Dhabi.

Fed by state initiatives to spur clean energy and innovative financing measures offered by companies such as SolarCity Corp., developers are adding workers at record rates to install rooftop panels. Oil and gas producers by contrast have slashed 351,410 jobs worldwide since prices began to slide in the middle of 2014, according to Houston-based Graves & Co.

“The continued job growth in the renewable energy sector is significant because it stands in contrast to trends across the energy sector,” said Adnan Amin, director-general of Irena, which is based in Abu Dhabi. “This increase is being driven by declining renewable energy technology costs and enabling policy frameworks. We expect this to continue as the case for renewables strengthens and countries move to achieve climate targets.”

Read more: Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S.


Shell Cuts 2,200 More Jobs to Withstand Lower-for-Longer Oil

Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut 2,200 more jobs, taking the tally of losses to 12,500 from 2015 to 2016 as Europe’s biggest oil producer continues to adjust to the slump in prices.

At least 5,000 jobs will be cut this year, the company said in an e-mailed statement. These reductions are in response to oil prices staying “lower for longer,” and a result of the acquisition of BG Group Plc earlier this year, said Paul Goodfellow, Shell’s vice president for the U.K. and Ireland. Shell and BG employed about 94,600 people at the end of 2015.

“These are tough times for our industry,” Goodfellow said in the statement. “We have to take further difficult decisions to ensure Shell remains competitive through the current prolonged downturn.”

The industry is cutting deeper despite oil’s 80 percent recovery since January. Prices remain about half the level of two years ago and producers’ earnings have been pummeled, credit ratings cut and borrowings increased to maintain dividend payouts. To help protect their balance sheets, companies have deferred or canceled billions of dollars of projects, renegotiated contracts with suppliers and eliminated thousands of jobs.

“Oil has recovered but is still below $50 and companies aren’t able to cover their dividends at that level,” said Jason Gammel, a London-based analyst at Jefferies International Ltd. “They are doing all they can and more cost-cutting measures are likely.”

more...

Shell Cuts 2,200 More Jobs to Withstand Lower-for-Longer Oil

Hell, investment into America built our freeways, highways, dams, invented the internet, and now makes solar a super employer! Loserterianism...Just keeps losing and losing! Too bad there's so many brainwashed assholes in this country. Yes, go ahead and attack solar idiots! It will lift the unemployment rate up 2-3% when you do and probably send us into a recession.

These studies have a serious flaw, where only ONE part of the process for things you don't like is included in the count, and "all" jobs in the things you do like are counted.

Why lie?

 

[Old Rocks]

link?