Ex-Fossil Workers Convert Old Oilfields to Solar Farms After 'Rapid Upskilling' in Alberta

07 Jul 2022 | Abstracted from The Planetary Press

"A group of 15 trainees will be heading out into the field to begin converting two Alberta oilfield sites into solar farms...near Taber, Alberta include Barnwell, a 1940s oilfield where past oil spills were never cleaned up, and Fincastle, a natural gas site that was drilled in 2008 and operated until 2014 when its owner went bankrupt.

"...the two sites will generate just over 2,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power 280

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