{"id":5278,"date":"2021-06-02T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en-renew\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:44:58","slug":"japans-power-industry-workers-union-calls-for-prudence-toward-the-closure-of-coal-fired-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/5278","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Power Industry Workers Union Calls for Prudence toward the Closure of Coal-fired Power Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tight energy situation has resulted from a major cold wave and shortages of LNG last winter, along with the phasing out of inefficient coal-fired power plants, among other developments.<\/p>\n<p>The union pointed out that the current review of energy policy and climate change measures \u201ccould have a great effect on employment and the working environment at worksites supporting stable energy supplies.\u201d It added that it was essential to consider such matters based on \u201cactual on-site situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the phasing out of inefficient coal-fired plants, the union said that consideration needed to be made of the role of coal-fired power in ensuring electricity supply stability over the medium and long term, along with a consideration of the importance of steady employment for workers and the maintenance and development of practical abilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tight energy situation has resulted from a major cold wave and shortages of LNG last winter, along with the phasing out of inefficient coal-fired power plants, among other developments. The union pointed out that the current review of energy policy and climate change measures \u201ccould have a great effect on employment and the working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[723,724,721],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-news","tag-coal-fired-plants","tag-energy-policy","tag-workers-union"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}