Green jobs: The new generation of workers making it work for them

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The new generation of workers making green jobs work for them

Paul McGoogan, 27, started seven years ago on the production line, shaping the metal panels that house the units. He now runs the team."My girlfriend and I have just bought a new home and the next step for us is to hopefully start a family, so knowing we are doing our bit for a more sustainable future is a big deal for me."

Moved by the sight of plastic waste on beaches and of harvests failing, Beth signed up for a degree in chemistry, but heard about vertical farming from a David Attenborough documentary and spotted an opportunity not far from her home. "It could revolutionise farming because you're not putting out tonnes and tonnes of carbon just flying things all over the world just for them to go in a bin and rot because they go off before they get there," she says.Forests of wind turbines are springing up in the waters around the UK and that's led to a boom in offshore building and maintenance.It's an industry that directly and indirectly involves 26,000 jobs now - by 2026, that's set to rise to 70,000.

We met in a training room at the Grimsby Institute where she was sitting inside a huge hub taken from a turbine, being taught how to run through the electrics to spot faults.

 

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