- In Canada's western oil patch, controversy is raging over federal government legislation intended to help the fossil fuel labour force transition to a greener economy, but union and community leaders are warning politicization of the Just Transition bill obscures the needs of workers.
Product delivery sendouts are blocked at Esso France's Fos-sur-Mer site in the south, while work continues at the company's northern Port Jerome-Gravenchon site, a CGT union representative said amid a nationwide strikes in the country.
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a not guilty criminal verdict by a lower court that cleared former Tokyo Electric Power Company executives of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power station disaster.
U.S. clean energy companies are offering better wages and benefits, flying in trainers from overseas, and contemplating ideas like buying roofing and electric repair shops just to hire their workers as firms try to overcome a labor shortage that threatens to derail President Joe Biden's climate change agenda.
More than 220,000 homes and businesses were still without power on Tuesday, as severe flooding hits California after a massive storm last week, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Bad weather disrupted road travel with flash floods and rock slides and have wreaked havoc on the state's power grid, knocking out electricity to tens for thousands of Californians.
More than 120,000 homes and businesses were still without power in California early on Monday, according to data from PowerOutage.us, after a massive storm last week that disrupted road travel with flash floods, rock slides and toppled trees. At least 12 fatalities have been reported from weather-related incidents in California in the past 10 days, Governor Gavin Newsom told a news conference.
More than 60,000 homes and businesses were still without power in California early Friday, according to data from PowerOutage.us, after a massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across the state.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co : * PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC- UNIT OF CO FILED AN APPLICATION WITH THE CPUC REQUESTING COST RECOVERY OF ABOUT $1.36 BILLION OF RECORDED EXPENDITURES. * PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC- COST RECOVERY OF ABOUT $1.36 BILLION OF RECORDED EXPENDITURES RELATED TO WILDFIRE MITIGATION, CERTAIN CATASTROPHIC EVENTS.
Germany's IG Metall union on Sunday called for new strikes on Monday in its ongoing wage dispute. The so-called warning strikes will take place at targeted locations in the states of Hesse, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the union said. The union, which represents metal and electric industry workers, have called for an 8% pay increase.
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