“Rigging is rigging, it doesn’t matter if you’re on an oil rig, you’re in a fabrication yard, or if you’re on a wind turbine,” said Paul*, an engineer who has been working offshore for 20 years. Now, as political divisions over the transition to net zero deepen, he’s working through his union to ensure that the skills he and other workers have learned constructing and working on oil rigs can be transferred to renewables.
“To me this looks like common sense,” he told New Statesman Spotlight.
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