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Cenovus Energy has partnered with Lac La Biche’s Portage College for a basic home construction and maintenance program to residents of Conklin, Janvier, the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation and three other communities in the Cenovus Indigenous housing initiative.
The six-month course teaches people how to build and maintain homes locally. Students develop entry-level construction skills that can be used towards a trade certification. The program begins recruiting students in upcoming weeks.
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A new indigenous skills training program, to be offered by Portage College in the New Year, will teach up to 24 students basic home construction and maintenance skills in a six-month course that will be a part of a Cenovus housing initiative to build homes in six First Nations and Métis communities closest to Cenovus oil sands operations in northern Alberta.
The housing initiative, first announced in January, commits $10 million per year to build much-needed new houses, including on Cold Lake First Nation.
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A new indigenous skills training program, to be offered by Portage College in the New Year, will teach up to 24 students basic home construction and maintenance skills in a six-month course that will be a part of a Cenovus housing initiative to build homes in six First Nations and Métis communities closest to Cenovus oil sands operations in northern Alberta.
The housing initiative, first announced in January, commits $10 million per year to build much-needed new houses, including on Cold Lake First Nation.
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