Iron & Earth has attracted substantial media attention. See below for a sample of articles, blogs, and podcasts.

2020 Media:

• The Gauntlet: Powering our world: How ex-oil and gas workers are making the move to clean energy
• Global News: Wait theres more: Why scaring people about cliamte change doesn’t work
• Medicine Hat News: Can solar solve abandoned well issues?
• The Globe and Mail: In Alberta, abandoned oil wells are being transformed into solar energy sites
• Part 1 & 2: CrossPolination Podcast: career reinvention from oil and gas (Clark-Bull Misner and Bruce Wison were interviewed 
• Tyee article regarding COVID-19 and bailing out oil and gas companies.  
• Vice: How to Persuade Workers It's Time to Move on From Oil and Gas
• Réorientation professionnelle compliquée pour les travailleurs du pétrole en Alberta
• Veronika at NextGenMen published the blog post she wrote for Next Gen Men based on the great conversation she had with Bruce  just in time for Earth Day 
• Africa Oil Week eBook
• Yale360Environmental: As oil industry swoons, tar sands workers look to renewables for jobs
• Today Ville: Green Technology Is “Pie In The Sky” According To Premier Kenny
• Glacier Farm Media: Alberta Farmer: Orphan well cleanup get $1.7 billion from Ottawa
• Chinese Solar Conference: Media partnership
• MCAC: Investing in municipal community generation
• Medicine Hat College: MHC to deliver training for RenuWell Project
• Medicine Hat News: Company gets southeast Alberta go-ahead for abandoned well solar plays
• Global News: Solar project seeks to replace abandoned oil wells in rural Alberta
• Daily Bulletin: New Project Converts Inactive Wellsites For Solar Energy, Utilizing Retrained OFS Workers 
• iPolitics: The Drilldown: Canadian oil production to drop by 6.6 per cent in 2020: energy regulator
• Zoom recording of Bruce Wilson’s convo with Dimitri Lascaris, candidate for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada
• High River Online: Replacing Orphaned Oil Wells With Solar Panels
• CBC: Pilot project aims to turn orphan oil well sites into solar project
• Huffington Post: The Pandemic Is A Devastating Crisis. Climate Change In Canada Will Be Worse
• Yahoo News: Pilot project aims to turn orphan oil well sites into solar project
• The Western Producer: Project to convert oil, gas wells to solar goes ahead
• The Daily Nelson: Column: Old oil and gas wells can find new life with renewable energy
• Rabble News: Old oil and gas wells find new life with renewable energy
• Castlegar Source: Column: Old oil and gas wells can find new life with renewable energy
• The Rossland Telegraph: Column: Old oil and gas wells can find new life with renewable energy
• The Georgia Straight: David Suzuki: Old oil and gas wells find new life with renewable energy
• Youtube:The Biggest Lie About Renewable Energy
• Medicine Hat News: MHC excited to partner on RenuWell project
• Vauxhall Advance:  New project on the horizon for RenuWell for the M.D. of Taber area
• Global News Article on Shell and Energy transition 
• Fortune Magazine: After the boom: Canada’s oil capital faces an uncertain future
• Shell to cut up to 40% from oil and gas production to prepare for energy transition
• Glacier Farm Media: Pilot project to convert old oil and gas wells gets green light
• Global News:  'Crisis' in energy sector not reflected in throne speech, says Jason Kenney
• Global News: Energy sector encouraged by messaging in speech from the throne
• Journal of Commerce: Fossil fuel workers group calls on Trudeau to back up green job commitments
• CBC Listen: Can laid off oil workers here transition into greener jobs?
• The World’s Video Wiki: 6 Eco-Friendly Promoters of Renewable Energy

2019 Media

• Edmonton Journal op-ed by Lliam Hildebrand and Bruce Wilson: “Fossil-fuel workers ready to support energy transition”
• Article by Lliam Hildebrand in Advancing Career Development in Canada “Oil workers have key role to play in building clean energy future”
• A video news story published about Iron & Earth by one of the largest news outlets in Sweden along with a second written story 
• Story in the Tyee “Alberta Can Transition from Oil and Gas and Have a Strong Economy. Here’s How” 
• Green Party press conference explaining their plan for a Just Transition and referencing the Iron & Earth Workers’ Climate Plan
• CPAW podcast “No Silver Bullet” (Episode 2, starting at 8 minutes 10 seconds
• Podcast interview for Terra Informa “Workers and the Future of Energy” (SoundCloud link)
• Profile story in Maisonneuve on Iron & Earth East Chapter Director, Delia Warren
• Profile story in Maisonneuve on Nick Kendrick who worked with Iron & Earth on a capstone research projec
• Interview with Alberta Views (being published in January, 2020
• Iron & Earth, our Workers’ Climate Plan and Solar Skills campaign mentioned during a Green Party press conference, where they announced support for a Just Transition. Also mentioned in the Green Party press release regarding Just Transition commitments. 
• Two video interviews between Elizabeth May and Iron & Earth East Director, Delia Warren. One highlighting Delia’s personal story and another video highlighting the 365 greenhouse project.
• Story in the Narwhal “After oil and gas: Meet Alberta workers making the switch to solar”
• Story in Open Canada “Have we improved the way we talk about climate change?
• Podcast interview with Sprawl Calgary: “The oil workers who welcome change
• Mentioned by NDP candidate in an all candidate forum. Story in Campbell River Mirror “North Island candidates chime in on climate change, transition from fossil fuel
• Story by the Bulletin where they mention our strategies: “The Time for Cooperation is Here”: https://brooksbulletin.com/the-time-for-cooperation-is-here/

Notable mentions

• Mentioned by David Suzuki and radio host as an inspiring solution during a June 23 CBC cross country checkup
• Katherine Hayhoe mentioned us as one of the most inspiring organizations during an interview with the Guardian

Newsletter mentions

• An article mentioning the RenuWell project in the MD of Taber newsletter
• A letter from the president to the Action Surface Rights members regarding support for RenuWell

2018 Media

• To the oil workers of Alberta: We care about you - The Globe and Mail
• Oil & gas workers go solar with Louis Bull Tribe- David Suzuki Foundation
• First Nations and Oilsands Workers Learn Solar Shoulder to Shoulder - Green Energy Futures
• Lessons for a successful transition to a low carbon economy- Agulhas Applied Knowledge

2017 Media

• Photos, Fires, Iron and Earth - Terra Informa
• Hildebrand: What about a just transition for Alberta’s workers? - Calgary Herald
• Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)-Government Orders - Speech in Parliament by MP Linda Duncan
• Iron & Earth: Oil Sands Workers Ready For Renewable Energy Shift - North American Wind Power
• Opinion: All Canadians must become climate leaders - Vancouver Sun
• Iron and Earth: Changing the Narrative about Canadian Energy Futures - Seeds of Good Anthropocenes
• Trades Jobs on a Path to Sustainable Future - The Runner
• ‘Climate-change agnosticism’ is a cop-out - The Globe and Mail
• How the Light Gets In - Portside
• Oil sands workers eager to embrace renewable energy future - Mining Family Matters
• Facing uncertain future, fossil fuel workers want retraining in renewables - The Conversation

2016 Media

• Iron and Earth ask province to commit to solar energy, retrain workers - CBC
• Laid-off By Oil Sands, Alberta Trades Seek Solar Relaunch - The Tyee
• Une formation pour les travailleurs des sables bitumineux qui veulent se recycler - Ici Radio Canada
• Oilsands workers call on Alberta government to retrain electricians as solar installation specialists - Edmonton Sun
• Group hopes to equip oilsands workers with solar skills - Fort McMurray Today
• LETTER: Retrain oilsands workers - Nelson Star
• From oil sands to solar panels: Non-profit aims to retrain Alberta's workers - The Globe and Mail
• Alberta’s oil sands workers band together to create clean energy jobs - UBC
• Iron and Earth: Oilsands workers supporting renewable energy - Climate Access
• Energia, l’era del petrolio è agli sgoccioli. Se i lavoratori dei ‘fossili’ chiedono di passare alle rinnovabili - Il Fatto Quotidiano
• Iron and Earth is harnessing oil sands workers for renewable energy jobs - The Coast
• Mobilizing for a Transition - Briarpatch Magazine
• Dilbit Dogma: On Pipelines to Tidewater - West Coast Environmental Law
• Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns - Climate and Capitalism
• Canadians Want Action On Climate Change - Environmental Defence
• Does Donald Trump represent a step forward for climate change action? - The Guardian
• 146. Iron and Earth: oilsands workers call for training in renewable energy - Green Energy Futures
• Climate policy and Canadian social democracy - Broadbent Institute Blog
• Iron & Earth Promotes the Unification of Oil and Gas with Renewable Energies - Canadian Mining and Energy
• A Dream Scenario - Goethe Institut

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