Study finds going green good for Indiana industry
June 05, 08 by TheFleetIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
By Erik Potter | Source: Post Tribune
As an example, wind power, which has landed on Indiana’s radar in a big way with plans for more than 300 wind turbines in Benton County by year’s end, would impact bread-and-butter Indiana industries.
Iron and steel workers, millwrights, sheet metal workers and machinists would all be needed to fuel a wind power expansion. Indiana has more than 24,000 such workers.
Marco Trbovich, a United Steelworkers union spokesman, said it was an investment in wind energy in Pennsylvania that led to the ArcelorMittal plant at Burns Harbor hiring 200 people recently.
“What this report shows is that there are real jobs out there” in a green economy, Trbovich said.
