Dawson Creek, B.C.: the mining industry expands with provincially funded training programs

The province of B.C. will be spending $1.6 million on the Workforce Exploration Skills Training (WEST) program at Northwest Community College (NWCC), the Dawson Creek Daily News reports.

Participants will spend seven weeks on the ground at a mining training camp located outside Smithers. They camp-based training program has seen 80 per cent of graduates successfully move on to jobs in the province’s mining sector. About three-quarters of the participants in these mining programs are Aboriginal.