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Northern Lights College Gets Cash Infusion for Trades Training

By 250 News

Friday, February 22, 2008 04:08 PM

Ft. St. John, B.C. -  Northern Lights College is getting  a $1-million boost from the Province to update and enhance trades training equipment and support the Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence.

Part of this funding will give students in NLC’s industrial mechanics program access to the sophisticated instruments used today for measuring and controlling industrial processes, so they will learn on the same equipment they will encounter in the field. 

The Ministry of Advanced Education is providing Northern Lights College with $890,000 to buy and install new equipment for the industrial instrument mechanics program.

The other $110,000, from the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, will be used to develop the Secretariat for the Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence, as well as providing equipment for the centre.
The Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence/Jim Kassen Industry Training Centre opened last fall at Northern Lights College to prepare students to enter the oil and gas industry and support the growth of B.C.’s economy.

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Comment Posted by: elanke on February 22 2008 8:30 PM
It is delightful to see cash coming to the north for something as practical as this program. My question? Where was the College of New Caledonia when these funds were being distributed? Why didn't it qualify for some of the $$'s?
Comment Posted by: lunarbase on February 22 2008 11:08 PM
Because there is on oil and gas industry here and FSJ already has the program started.

CNC has gotten dollars for other training programs that NLC has not.