Gas pipeline has potential to open thousands of jobs around state
Published Thursday, July 10, 2008
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Stumble It!FAIRBANKS — How many jobs would a natural gas pipeline net?
At recent legislative hearings on TransCanada’s application under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, a consultant said thousands of construction jobs would be short-term, but that a pipeline would secure secondary jobs in exploration and future development as the door opens to new fields. Conrad Mulligan, a senior scientist for Seattle-based Arcadis, presented modeling of potential employment impacts. Either a TransCanada or a producers’ pipeline, such as the Denali project proposed by BP and ConocoPhillips, would translate into 15,000 jobs in the peak year. That would taper off to about 200 operations jobs.
Depending on the shipping conditions a pipeline offers to producers, exploration and development could spur from 47,000 to 72,000 exploration and development jobs between 2015 and 2045, Mulligan said.
Also at those hearings, state research and analysis chief Brynn Keith defined what she termed the AGIA skills gap.
She said Alaska lacks skilled, available workers, driving companies to hire from Outside. In 2006, more than 16 percent of workers in 113 occupations linked to AGIA were nonresidents. The situation could grow worse, she said, with 37 percent of Alaskans in those occupations at 45 years or older in 2006.
Labor Commissioner Click Bishop outlined four strategies the state has developed to address the issues. Those included increasing awareness of career options, developing a technical education system, increasing apprenticeships and on-the-job training opportunities and building training systems for operations, technical and management workers.
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Humm thousands that's a huge number when you got a Obama coming to the state. Really you think he'll care about oil and LNG when he comes he'll talk about a new beginning more like the the new beginning of mankind to Alaska where forging is a better way of life and everyone in the lower 48 does it. I almost do it daily you'll be doing it soon think he has the master plan? He's from Hawalii how much further from reality do you really have to be from? They are paying twice what you pay for everything now. And he's against everything oil gas next trees? Maybe burn your own clothing to keep warm? Really he has no idea on how life here really is like or ever will...
So the choice is to create jobs for either Canadians & the lower 48 or create jobs for Alaskans?
We don't have any universities or vocational training in Alaska? We pay teachers to stay in Alaska don't we? Why not welders, electricians, drivers, etc.? I'd really like my kids to have job prospects in Alaska other than fast food & summer jobs supporting tourists. Is this a case of "If you build it, they will come"?
If we don't build the infrastructure in Alaska, families that we need here will continue to leave. There has got to be a way to motivate companies to hire local. With little or no infrastructure, housing, fuel, etc. I can't really blame people for not wanting to move/stay here. I'm also tired of the paychecks flowing out of Alaska.
Maybe the politicians should remember that out of state workers don't vote here.
Alaska can't even staff what is here now and they are going to create thousands of jobs. Sure that is going to bring more revenue to the state but it also brings more crime too.
The people from Canada and the lower 48 who come here to work are going to need housing so the price of housing goes up.
Why can't they take some of these people who are living on the streets or in half way houses train them to do the jobs and hire them?? Those are the people who should get the jobs first. Get them off the streets and off public assistance.
Playing with plastic pipes is fun...
www.fairbanksgas.com
A statewide gasline network interconnected with fiberoptics will provide the needed infrastructure for supplying all villages with heat,fuel,and internet.
Broadband in the bush finally!!
This will help improve the mental health for all Alaskans..
being internet junkies will be the new disaster.
A network of nuts..
All the MentalHealthTrust lands will be filled with squatters glued to glowing screens inside a warm styrofoam igloo...(;-P)
There will be tons of Telemedicine jobs for psychotherapists to help the dropouts..
Did you hear Ted Kackczynski is a trustee in the mailroom at the prison now?
..yeah you can send him fan mail.
The smart-gasline-network will create "roadless roads" along existing trails where you can run your dogteams for endless miles of wilderness, but still be able to stop just about anywhere and get a small jug of gas from an automated kiosk, and send an email to your mom too.
Yes a statewide gasline network will create tons of jobs and opportunities all across the boards.
It will provide the people the ability to make a thousand little fish hatcheries.
It will help Alaskans to perform complete land reclamation after devastating wildfires.
It will make a million greenhouses for cultivating gardens and native plant nurseries.
It will dramatically improve real-estate values everywhere.
Small aircraft will be able to navigate much more safely over the state because they will be able to pick up a WiFi-wireless signal almost everywhere.
We don't need another pipeline, the traffic is bad enough now. Why make it worse? On top of that every loser in the lower forty eight will be headed this way bring nothing but trouble.
TomJ475
Are you talking about all the losers with the skills that Alaskan's don't have? Or are you talking about the same kind of losers that you or your family were when they came to Alaska for jobs? Thank god all those losers came up here to build the oil pipeline so we could have a dividend. Them is my favorite kinda' loser.
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