Oilsands workers call on Alberta government to retrain electricians as solar installation specialists | Edmonton Journal
A company called Iron & Earth is asking the provincial government to help support its Solar Skills campaign, a project that aims to train 1,000 electricians from the oilsands sector to install solar panels on 100 public buildings, making their skills marketable across the energy sector.
"Now is definitely the time to be launching this organization," said Iron & Earth founder Lliam Hildebrand,
Who is "oilsands worker", Lol... Lliam Hildebrand?
Here's his Youtube channel.
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Christopher Ivey | March 23, 2016 3:29 PM | Reply
I wrote this letter to the journalist who is credited on the story:
Dear Mr. Lazzarino,
I think you were punked when you wrote the story headlined “Oilsands workers call on Alberta government to retrain electricians as solar installation specialists”.
It struck me as odd that oil sands workers, who tend to be both knowledgeable and pragmatic, would be demanding that the government set up a program to “retrain” them for solar installations.
An electrician is an accredited tradesman. You don’t get to be one without passing a series of exams and getting thousands of hours of experience. They don’t need training to install solar panels: they would work from blueprints in the same way as they do when installing Motor Control Consoles, substations, control systems, or any other industrial electrical facility.
Also, Mr. Lliam Hildebrand is unlikely to have fellow oil-field workers, since he’s an environmental activist listed as a cast member in Naomi Klein’s film “This Changes Everything”. Here’s his YouTube channel -
http://www.youtube.com/user/integreenvictoria
Do you plan on updating your story to reflect this?
Yours truly,
Chris Ivey