{"id":915,"date":"2020-09-29T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/?p=915"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:35:35","slug":"why-half-of-oil-and-gas-workers-are-looking-to-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/2020\/09\/29\/why-half-of-oil-and-gas-workers-are-looking-to-offshore-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Half of Oil and Gas Workers are looking to Offshore Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Four out of five UK oil and gas workers want to quit the fossil fuel industry, with a majority favouring a move to offshore wind and renewables, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners Platform, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Greenpeace UK found 81% of workers they surveyed are considering leaving the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the 1,383 respondents \u2013 representing 4.5% of the UK oil and gas workforce \u2013 would be interested in retraining in offshore wind (53%) and renewables (51%), making the sectors the most popular choices for a career change, they found.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigners argued that skills needed for offshore wind work closely aligns with oil and gas, but fossil fuel workers\u2019 knowledge and expertise is as-yet untapped by the renewable industry.<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Jeliazkov, lead campaigner for a just transition at Platform, said: \u201cThese workers are the backbone of our energy sector but have faced years of job insecurity amid volatile oil markets, lax regulation and now the global pandemic.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/article\/1695683\/why-half-oil-gas-workers-looking-offshore-wind\">https:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/article\/1695683\/why-half-oil-gas-workers-looking-offshore-wind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;] Four out of five UK oil and gas workers want to quit the fossil fuel industry, with a majority favouring a move to offshore wind and renewables, according to a new survey. Campaigners Platform, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Greenpeace UK found 81% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}