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

2023

• Watch: CTV Alberta Prime Time - Interview on the Just Transition with Luisa Da Silva, Executive Director of Iron & Earth
• Virgin Radio Edmonton - A war of words between Alberta and Ottawa: What does 'just transition' actually mean?
• Canada News - A war of words between Alberta and Ottawa: What does ‘just transition’ actually mean?
• 630 CHED News - Interview with Iron & Earth Executive Director, Luisa Da Silva on what just transition really means. To hear the interview go to the CHED audio vault for January 12, look for the 7:00am hour, press play, then move ahead to the 9:10 mark in the hour. 
• St. Alberta Gazette -   Library hosts green jobs workshop
• Calgary Herald - Opinion: Stop the panic, 'just transition' has never meant a forced movement of workers
• Edmonton Journal - Opinion: Stop the panic, 'just transition' has never meant a forced movement of workers
• The Hill Times - Renewable energy sector ‘going like gangbusters,’ say experts, but feds must handle just transition legislation with sensitivity
• The Climate Lens podcast - The Alberta Transition. Features Iron & Earth’s Stephen Buhler.  
• National Post - Dishing with DKG: Never mind Justin Trudeau, this oilpatch woman's getting the job done
• Ottawa Citizen - Dishing with DKG: Never mind Justin Trudeau, this oilpatch woman's getting the job done (The column also appeared in numerous papers in the Postmedia network including The Cochrane Times Post, The Londoner, Calgary Herald, High River Times, Kenora Miner & News, Simcoe Reformer, Edmonton Journal )
• CBC Radio - CrossTalk - What's been the importance of skilled trades in Newfoundland and Labrador? And what part will they play in for our future? Phone in show about skilled trades starts at the 12:30 mark and Iron & Earth's Net-Zero Pathways Lead is interviewed at 36:30 mark. 
• News Leaflets - Alberta premier disappointed by federal Sustainable Jobs Plan
• Canada’s National Observer - Solar powering your home is a commitment to the future 
• Warwick Alumni - Luisa Da Silva: Finding her tribe at Warwick and saving the planet
• Hill Times - Feds’ sustainable jobs plan a good start, but too soft on emissions reductions, say environmental experts
• The Gauntlet - Energy transition is our current reality
• Pembina Institute - Women in Energy Transformation Profile: Alexandra Tavasoli
• Green Energy Futures - A blueprint for workers moving into a renewable energy career
• SaltWire Network - Training for a Green Future

2022

• Hamilton Spectator - Coal phase-out funds earmarked for studies, infrastructure projects
• Kimberley Bulletin - EK Climate Hub to host online presentation on fossil fuel transition
  
• Toronto Star - Feds announce next step as communities come together for a just transition
• Energy Mix - Just Transition Advocates See Legislation on the Horizon after Federal Roundtable
• CBC - Saskatoon just transition panel explores link between climate change, workforce
  
• Listen: From the Ground Up podcast - Iron & Earth's Ana Guerra Marin pt 2
• National Observer - As N.L. awaits Bay du Nord decision, opponents pitch an alternative — just transition
• Energy Mix - New Online Tool Matches Canadian Oil and Gas Workers With Renewables Jobs
  
• Watch: Global News - Worker-led organization highlights job opportunities for oil and gas workers in green energy sector
• Hill Times - Tax credit for carbon capture the wrong horse to back in a race against time (subscriber content)
• Energy Mix - Don’t Count on Carbon Capture to Win ‘Race Against Time’, Ex-Shell Engineer Urges Ottawa
• Energy Mix - Labour Shortages Choke Canadian Oil Production as Prices Soar
• Toronto Star - Federal government’s inaction on just transition ‘stealing our futures,’ oil and gas worker says
• Toronto Star - Training program for O&G and Indigenous workers focuses on transitioning inactive sites to renewable energy projects
• Saltwire - Commentary: Why Bay du Nord is yesterday’s project
• Pembina Institute Blog - Reconciliation and the energy transition Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty are a critical priority in transitioning to a net-zero economy
• Carbon News - Ex-fossil fuel workers convert old oil fields to solar farms (subscriber content)
• National Observer - Solar project repurposing abandoned oil and gas wells launches pilot in sunny Alberta town
• National Observer - Sally Lin helps others rethink their climate-friendly future
• National Newswatch - It’s Just Talk on Just Transition
• Municipal World - Iron & Earth: Training the clean energy sector’s future
• Maclean’s - Why there’s never been a better time to start a career in construction
• Corporate Knights Petroleum workers journey into the world of renewable energy
• Canada's National Observer - Does a housing-secure Canada include Indigenous   communities? Opinion piece by Iron & Earth Board member Jordan Koe
• Jasper Fitzhugh - Hinton hosts first-ever Energy Festival
• The Energy Mix - Ottawa Overspends on CCS, Neglects Worker Skills: Iron & Earth 
• The Energy Mix - Guilbeault Scorches Fossils for Failing to Invest Record Profits in Emission Cuts 
• Listen: CBC Nature of Things Point of View - The media has wasted decades arguing over climate change Updated story as of November 1
• The Energy Mix - Fall Economic Statement Today Raises Spectre of New CCS Subsidy
• Listen: CBC What on Earth podcast - Seeking real climate action: Canadians share their hopes ahead of COP27
• Listen: Sound Cloud audio mix of Training and installation of a wind turbine among the Cree, Treaty 6, Canada by Lou Romain
• Western Producer - Solar projects help with oil, gas well remediation
• Listen: CBC Radio Labrador Morning - Mentorship Program with Jodie Hon, Information & Stem Manager with Iron & Earth. Interview begins at 21:45
• Taber Times - MLA Hunter excited by projects like RenuWell
• Policy Options - The two best ways to help oil and gas workers exit the sector

2021

• CSEG The Recorder - Special edition focusing on careers in energy transition - featuring articles from RenuWell and I&E team
• Centre for Social Innovation - A Just Transition for Oil and Gas Workers: A conversation with Bruce Wilson
• Listen: CBC What on Earth - Why Canada needs a 'just transition' from fossil fuels
• Trico Foundation - Spotlight on IRP Recipients: Iron & Earth
• Grains West - A Sunny Forecast, Pilot Project Taps Alberta's Deep Well of Solar Power Potential
• Corporate Knights - Was cancelling Keystone the cleantech catalyst Calgary didn’t know it needed?
• Listen: CBC Podcast - Disruption - How we find energy, create energy, use energy 
• Global and Mail - How might workers shift to cleaner energy
• The Energy Mix Two-thirds of Canadian Oil and gas workers want net-zero jobs. 
• National Observer - Fossil fuel workers ready for a just transition
• Toronto Star - Fossil fuel workers ready for a just transition
• CBC: The World at Six - Paige Parsons - no link
• The Narwhal - Canada Oil and Gas Iron & Earth Poll
• Alberta Today - Training essential to post fossil fuel job transition poll finds
• Yahoo Finance - Most Canadian oil and gas workers fear for their jobs...
• iPolitics - Training essential to post fossil fuel job transition poll finds
• The Observer - Canada is on fire, why isn’t it’s politics
• Vancouver is awesome - Majority of Canada’s oil and gas workers support move
• Northshore News - Majority of Canada’s oil and gas workers support move...
• The Energy Mix - Just Transition Consultations
• National Observer - Canada Just Transition Public Consultation
• Toronto Star - Now’s your chance to weigh in on Canada’s just transition
• Welland Tribune - Now’s your chance to weigh in on Canada’s just transition
• Edmonton Journal - Opinion: give oil and gas workers the tools they need.. 
• The Hill Times - Liberal’s just transition short on details but won’t come cheap...
• The Nelson Daily - Past engagement process climate action..
• National Observer - Meet fossil fuel workers pushing energy transition
• The Narwhal - Canada needs to spend $10B to retrain oil and gas workers
• Corporate Knights - Most oil patch workers believe Canada needs to pivot...
• Global News - Should I stay or should I go...oil and gas workers global energy
• Squamish Chief - Where do Canada’s political parties stand on climate change
• Press Progress - Here’s what Canada’s 3 major parties climate platforms...
• Reuters - Canada fossil fuel workers want Trudeau to keep retraining pledge 
• iPolitics - Net Zero: WHO announces new air quality guidelines
• National Observer - Luisa Da Silva moves iron and earth for a just transition
• Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle - Letter: Time to transition from fossil fuels
• Winnipeg Free Press - Meet fossil fuel workers pushing for energy transition
• Burnabynow - Letter: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to step up...
• Listen: Talking Radical Radio - Fossil fuel workers pushing for a shift to renewables 

2020

• 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 (no active link) 
• 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. Not active link)
• The Tyee - Bail out Workers, Not Fossil Fuels, Climate Advocates Tell Trudeau
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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