Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Rep. David B. McKinley, RW.Wa., posted on Facebook last week that he is co-sponsoring legislation from Rep. Mark S. Critz, D-Pa., to augment on-the-job training programs for the Marcellus shale industry.
HR 1396 amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the U.S. secretary of labor to make discretionary grants to local areas for adult on-the-job training or dislocated worker on-the-job training at worksites directly related to the exploration, production and transportation of natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation.
"Discovery of Marcellus shale has already created hundreds of jobs in northern West Virginia and we must protect those jobs for West Virginians," McKinley said. "We have seen our local hotels to capacity with out-of-state workers doing the same job that our workforce could handle with the proper training. The resources our state naturally has should be used for the benefit of the people from our state. ... We must do everything we can to get our state back to work and this piece of legislation is a step in the right direction for achieving that goal."
The posting notes that McKinley is also a founding member of the bipartisan Congressional Marcellus Shale Caucus, devoted to discussing how to best harness the economic development and energy independence potential of Shale gas production while providing reasonable protections for landowners and the environment.
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