Canada / Conservation could create 25,000 jobs by 2025

Slashing energy consumption by a quarter over the next decade or so could create 25,000 new jobs, concludes a report by a coalition of environmentalists and unions.

The group, Blue Green Canada, maintains that curbing power use would add $3.7 billion to the economy and help cut the federal and provincial deficits by almost $2 billion annually by 2025.

That calculation is based on a boost to real gross domestic product of 0.4 per cent over the next dozen years.

The findings are in a 20-page report — entitled More Jobs, Less Pollution and released Wednesday — that comes as the Ontario government is revising its long-term energy plan, which will be released this fall.

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