With the Cook Inlet renaissance and proposed Alaska LNG Project conversations, questions of available skilled workers arise.
Rep. Kurt Olson(Dist 30) addressed keeping Alaskan workers local at a luncheon in August.
Rep. Olson: “Our biggest problem is having a skilled work force so we can worry about local hire, at this point in time a number of our skilled employees are now working in North Dakota along with their employers, and we need to get primed, we need programs like what we have at Kenai Peninsula College, we need bulkhead programs to gear up welders, and we need to get people into skilled positions and have them available at the time the gas line begins construction.”
He said he is hopeful for the Alaska LNG Project as this is the closest the steps have ever gone.
Olson will appear on KSRM’s Tall, Dark, and Handsome Show at 4 pm today.
