Canada looks to lure energy workers from the U.S.

[Valin]

LA Times:

 

In its quest to increase oil production, Canada is lobbying job fairs and air waves for laborers. California has become a prime target.

Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times

November 10, 2012

 

EDMONTON, Canada — With a daughter to feed, no job and $200 in the bank, Detroit pipe fitter Scott Zarembski boarded a plane on a one-way ticket to this industrial capital city.

 

He'd heard there was work in western Canada. Turns out he'd heard right. Within days he was wearing a hard hat at a Shell oil refinery 15 miles away in Fort Saskatchewan. Within six months he had earned almost $50,000. That was 2009. And he's still there.

 

"If you want to work, you can work," said Zarembski, 45. "And it's just getting started."

 

U.S. workers, Canada wants you.

 

Here in the western province of Alberta, energy companies are racing to tap the region's vast deposits of oil sands. Canada is looking to double production by the end of the decade. To do so it will have to lure more workers — tens of thousands of them — to this cold and sparsely populated place. The weak U.S. recovery is giving them a big assist.

 

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[Pepper]

@Valin

We soon won't even have energetic workers left, let alone workers in the energy sector.

[nickydog]

If I was an energetic energy worker, I'd go.

[Valin]

@Pepper @nickydog

 

 

I just don't understand it, doesn't he want his Free Stuff, doesn't he want his daughter to get Free contraceptives?

I bet he's a racists too!