Major infrastructure projects of all kinds are highly political because large sums of money are involved, and money means jobs. For a contentious area such as energy investment, this means that all announcements are accompanied by claims of significant job creation. These claims typically have two things in common: the numbers are extravagantly high and it is not clear how they were calculated.
Why we need a new approach to predicting renewables job creation
The current method for calculating how many jobs a project will bring is inaccurate. There is another way, writes Alun Roberts
12 January 2017 16:00 GMT
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27 January 2017 15:45 GMT
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