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Some Oil Workers Without Jobs Are Looking to Solar for Employment

June 8, 2016/

Eighty thousand workers have been laid off across the country as the price of oil has plummeted. In Texas, some out-of-work rig hands, pipe fitters and engineers are finding employment in solar energy.

by Stephen Lacey

Full Story: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Oil-Workers-Without-Jobs-Are-Looking-to-Solar?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=GTMDaily

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