Monday, May 22, 2017

Carbon County Coal Miners Trained To Be Wind Farm Technicians

OK, the title is a tease.  The U.S. has four Carbon counties, located in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana.  This training is for a wind farm to be built in Carbon County, Wyoming.  The company that hopes to erect the wind turbines is a Chinese company named Goldwind Works.  The project could generate hundreds of full time operations and support positions.

Last year Linda and I drove though Wyoming on I-80.  The number of existing wind turbines we could see from the freeway was amazing.  The Trump Administration may be pushing coal mining, but coal is a dying technology.


Information for this post was from today’s business section of the Times.,  See “Wyoming Wind Project Envisions Coal Miners As Its New Work Force,” p. B6.

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