According to the Canadian Energy Research Institute, a mammoth $218 billion investment in oil sands development is expected over the next 25 years. Besides having the potential to triple the oil sands’ daily output from the current 1.8 million barrels, continued development of the Alberta energy sector will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in Canada and in the United States, where the bulk of the petroleum ends up. With safe, motivated, and trained members already working on oil sands projects, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters stands ready to take advantage of the opportunities in the near term and on the horizon. Work opportunities for UBC contractors are promising in Alberta’s oil sands, where an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil wait to transform North America’s energy landscape. “We have and are continually upgrading our training centers across the province to ensure we have capacity and up-to-date equipment and programs in place to meet the demands of the marketplace,” said Martyn Piper, executive secretary-treasurer of the UBC’s Alberta Regional Council. “Our dispatch is fully automated, and we are embarking upon upgrades to that system to ensure quick response time to employer demands
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:06:03 +0000