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Climate Career Portal

The Climate Career Portal is a digital platform that connects fossil fuel industry workers with career path opportunities in the net-zero economy, along with climate solution information, industry resources, and connections to training opportunities to support their career transition. We are excited to be able to launch some major changes to the the Portal in February of 2023. 

Prosperous Transition

Oil giant BP just announced that the world has likely hit peak oil and demand will decline rapidly into the future. Meanwhile, workers across the country are struggling with the economic effects of the COVD-19 pandemic.

As fossil fuel industry workers, and friends and family of those in the energy industry, we know fossil fuels have contributed significantly to our lives and economy. We also know it’s time to forge a sustainable energy future that creates over a million new careers.

The Renewable Skills Initiative 

The Renewable Skills Initiative is designed to build up the workforce required to fill the growing need for skilled solar and wind energy industry workers while empowering our core constituency of fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers to enter these industries. The primary trainee target is tradespeople across the spectrum, with a goal of gender parity in our programs.

RenuWell

Declining production from conventional oil and gas fields has left 199,000+ inactive wells and more than 160,000 hectares of disturbed land in Alberta. RenuWell aims to accelerate both the clean up of these sites, while also utilizing the existing roads, powerlines, and disturbed lands to reduce the costs for renewable energy projects. Iron & Earth is a core partner on this initiative. The infrastructure for two pilot projects was celebrated in November of 2022. Once final hook-up to the grid is completed we expect the power to go online in the first quarter of 2023. 

Community Pathways Project

We believe that hearing directly from the community is vital. As Canada weathers a changing economic, social, and environmental landscape, all of the impacts are felt by people. By setting up small-scale, meaningful conversations in key communities across the country we can hear directly from people most affected, discuss what support would be useful, and focus on solutions.

Net-Zero Pathways

Canada has two big tasks over the next three decades: we need to make a rapid transition from a fossil fuel based economy to a renewable energy based economy and we need to achieve meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Fossil fuel, Indigenous, trades, and equity-deserving workers who have the skills we need to build the new economy, do not always have access to adequate training they will need to do that work. Our Net-Zero Pathways program will provide subsidies, incentives, and training to employees and employers to develop the skilled workforce needed for a sustainable and diversified economy. 

 

Iron & Earth was founded and operates on Indigenous land within Treaty Six Territory and Métis Region 4 in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (in Nehiyawewin/Cree), so-called Edmonton. The home of many Indigenous Peoples including the Nehiyawak/Cree, Tsuut’ina, Niitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois, Dene Suliné, Anishinaabe/Ojibway/Saulteaux, and the Inuk/Inuit.

We pay our respects to all Indigenous Peoples of this land. Through their spiritual and practical relationships with the land, a rich heritage for our learning and our life as a community has been created and maintained. We recognize that the transition to a low-carbon future must be led by Indigenous Peoples and that there will be no justice unless we acknowledge and repair our relationship with the land.

We are committed to responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action and upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and acknowledge that we are always learning and unlearning practices that minimize harm and lead to the development of trust between us and Indigenous Peoples across Nations and urban centers.