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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
Kinder Morgan talks job opportunities By Michael Potestio THE HERALD
reporter@merrittherald.com
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Doug Dowd of the Doug James Band (front) joins guitarist John Henry Ramsey of the Coquihalla Coyotes on stage at the Culture Club on Friday night.
Their bands were two on a bill of local musicians that volunteered their talents to raise money for the Merritt Christmas Elves, a group of charitable Merrittonians who are supplying gifts and gift cards to 10 local families in need this holiday season.
About 100 people attended the concert, which raised a total of $1,036 for the Elves. Emily Wessel/Herald
Locals are being given an opportunity to toss their hard hats into the ring with Kinder Morgan. Members of the oil company were in Merritt on Dec. 4 to discuss job opportunities that may be available if its proposed TransMountain pipeline expansion project is approved. Those interested in the potential for work can go online to register their names at www.transmountain.com/jobs. Kinder Morgan’s job registry will go live early in the new year. The company is looking to maximize the number of job opportunities available to locals along the path of the TransMountain project pipeline. Lexa Hobenshield, manager of external relations for Kinder Morgan, said the company is currently taking names of people who are interested in opportunities to work with the project, and people can list their skills sets on the job registry. “When we hire general contractors at a point in the future, we can say to our general contractors,
‘Here are the skill sets available in the local communities along the line,’” Hobenshield said. On the website, the Merritt area is listed as B.C. Interior. “When we gather your information on the registry, that’s the information that we’re passing over to the contractors, so that’s one key way that we can connect you with potential employment,” Kinder Morgan communications lead Kate Stebbings told those gathered at the Civic Centre. People who register will be informed of job opportunities available in their area that they can apply for, Hobenshield told the Herald. She said they are publicizing the types of jobs they’ll be looking to fill early on in the process of getting the pipeline project approved to allow those interested time to obtain any needed training to be eligible for those jobs. WorkBC will be another avenue to finding work with the pipeline. There were about 30 people at the Civic Centre to listen to Kinder Morgan’s presentation.
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