Wouldn’t it make more sense to hold this in the north? Or at least put on another one in the north.

The province will help cover student transportation costs to the conference by offering to pay up to $400 dollars per student for the trip.

Wowww Province paying that?? I’m assuming the gas company paying balance??

The province shouldn’t be paying anything, either the companies pay to get access to possible new labour pool, or have several conferences around the province. Again, a good idea, just done wrong.

So the emphasis seems to be on building pipelines, not on working in the plants.

Sort of a sunset industry, unless they become nomads and work in fly in camps all over the world.

Just more of your tax dollars supporting big industry instead of them doing it themselves. Can’t share the profits with the common folk you know.

I have always looked at the pipeline building industry as a bit of a traveling “carney” show. Rather than unskilled workers, the traveling carneys in this industry are trades people.

Get use to living in camps, hotel rooms, and travel trailers, should you choose to work in this industry.

Hmm… pay $400 for students to travel down to Vancouver, get a whole bunch of them interesting in taking up a trade in welding (for example), build all those natural gas pipelines in less than 10 years, and then have a whole bunch of unemployed welders.

Kind of irresponsible, but the oil & gas corporations will be happy their pipelines got built.

Is there anything you guys don’t complain about? Seriously, if the government wasn’t chipping in you’d be all over them for not helping the students get ahead in life.

I have always looked at the pipeline building industry as a bit of a traveling “carney” show. Rather than unskilled workers, the traveling carneys in this industry are trades people.

Get use to living in camps, hotel rooms, and travel trailers, should you choose to work in this industry.

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That’s rather insulting to those people who bust their asses making a living and learning a trade that happen to work in an industry that requires camp/motel/trailer work.

axman, I agree that Peeps comment is rather insulting!

Peeps makes a comment like that yet probably uses natural gas for home heating and hot water. Probably drives a vehicle or two, burning that nasty fossil fuel that is delivered to refineries in nasty pipelines!

As always, when reading Peeps comments, my “Moron Meter” is Peeping rather loudly!!

Peeps you say the workers travel to jobs then say once the lines are built no jobs. Well would not the “Carney Show” just move on to the next job. Pipelines are constantly being built all over the world, you really have to get past the headlines.

Pipelines are located in remote areas, of course the construction jobs are not going to allow the workers to come home every night. Duhhh….

If transport technology as depicted in Star Trek has been developed and I haven’t heard about it, I take this comment back.

Ummm… JB…. I already stated; “Get use to living in camps, hotel rooms, and travel trailers, should you choose to work in this industry.”

Do you have any idea who you are debating, and on what point? LOL!

Another teacher jihad. How predictable and sad. Can’t wait to see peeps non stop BCTF cheer leading. Wonder how much peeps will get paid for spewing their over the top crap.

Peeps, you seem to contradict yourself a LOT!

On one hand, you as the person of the People (how lame) have condemned businesses for not employing people closer to their homes, instead taking workers far away from home, making them live in isolated camps away from their families. Sorry, but that’s the reality of work! You do know what work is, don’t you?

And then on the other hand, you cheer the Prosperity Mine decision, a decision that would have provided family supporting jobs in an area desperately in need of family supporting jobs. So, the very people that need jobs closer to home, will now have to travel farther afield to find work!

You really are a bit of a hypocrite, don’t you think? That’s ok, you just sit there on your butt, using your 2 energy consuming computers and contributing to global warming, er I mean climate change! We are calling it climate change now, not global warming, right??

Poor Hart Guy, when confronted by superior intellect, resort to stalking and personal attacks. Your obsession with me is obvious to everyone on this discussion board.

It’s your ego that won’t let you go, yet let go you must. I mean seriously, getting home from work and then eagerly looking for my comments seems to be the high-light of your pathetic day.

Nice that I have become such a big part of your life, and that I now live inside your head. By the way, it’s kind of empty in there, and it has an echo.

Peeps, please be sure to let me know when I am being confronted by superior intellect. So far, I only seem to be confronted by you, a blowhard, narcissistic autobot that isn’t even intelligent enough to recognize it’s lack of superior intellect!!

I like taking you to task, holding you to account, showing that you are nothing more than a hypocritical egotist! As I’ve said before, I consider you to be the Bully on this site and I like to put bullies in their place! From the comments that I see, it seems that I get just a teeny tiny little bit more support for my opinions and my comments than you get for your verbal diarrhea.

People#1, #1 seriously?? #1? Come on, you, I and everyone on this site recognizes that you are hardly #1 at anything, anything that matters at least!!

Think I’ll start calling you Poops instead of Peeps! After all, most of the time you pretty much are full of it, haha!

G’nite, sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite!!