Closing existing mines, power plants ... that produce electricity - 24 / 7 - also will retire experience workers that will not be easily replaced - if ever.
I recently noticed that a coal plant just south of Ashland KY has been restarted. Interestingly, the plant is adjacent to large coal mining operations.
You are spot on., Even now there is a shortage of experienced workers in the field, we are maintaining plants with smaller numbers than i have ever seen in my entire 40 years.
The practice is common now to sub contract retired employees to come back during outages in an effort to have qualified experience! Something I will be doing myself in a few years.
I live along the Ohio River. Five years ago there were six coal fired plants within 50 miles of me. Today there are two. The fourth closed in August. The other three have already been demolished so there’s no going back. No solar farms or windmills around here to replace them. The feds are building the narrative of climate/energy emergency in order to run another Covid type scam. The goal, finish off the middle class and complete the transition to totalitarianism.