Ashley works in a small town that relies on a big industry. He’s worried about its survival

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For 36 years Ashley Cook has worked at a coal mine in regional Queensland, taking pride in his highly skilled dragline operator job. He's concerned about what the state government's energy plan could mean for communities like his.

ensuring state-owned power station staff will be retrained or redeployed to other public sector jobs when the stations progressively become "clean energy hubs" from 2027.

"I'd like to see a bit more conversation with people in the towns so they've got a bit of an idea and know what's around the corner," he said. He said workers from places such as the Callide Mine were not guaranteed replacement jobs in Biloela because the charter only promised new training or financial compensation for workers to move.

The spokesperson said an additional 100,000 jobs would be created via the plan and that there would be an additional $200m invested in the regional economic futures fund to support communities where coal plants were located.'It'll be a slow thing' "There will be some challenges for towns and particular regions over time and the longer the time frame, the more transformation.Dr Rolfe predicted that the benefits of renewable energy would outweigh the short-term negatives in the fullness of time.

 

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Ashley should worry about doing his job well. Something he can control.

It’s not about towns it’s about multinationals pilfering as much as they can to place the wealth into the caymans & then taxpayers to help support failing communities abcnews promoting the very thing rather than actual investigation

The inner city greenies don’t care about them. Maybe they will get an RUOK day in a few years time if they’re still alive

They can be retrained as baristas serving soy lattes to the people who destroyed their high paying jobs.

Well. History says progress doesn’t care about towns stuck in the past. The rest of Australia’s population and ecosystems matters more.

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