[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: University of New Brunswick (Canada) UXO Technician training

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UNB and AMEC partner to deliver Canada's first UXO training program

Frederickton Daily Gleaner (NB)
October 10, 2009

The University of New Brunswick's College of Extended Learning has 
partnered with AMEC, the international engineering and project 
management company, to offer Canada's first Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) 
Technician 1 training program.

"According to information provided on the Department of National Defence 
UXO and Legacy Sites Program website, several hundred UXO legacy sites 
are known to exist at locations spread across Canada's land mass. There 
are also approximately 63 priority offshore sites that have been 
identified, 43 on the Atlantic Coast and 20 on the Pacific Coast," said 
Raymond Getchell, head of Canadian UXO Operations, AMEC Earth and 
Environmental.

"It has also been recognized by those in the industry, that there is a 
shortage of qualified UXO technicians in Canada."

The UXO training program will train personnel to meet the demand. This 
will be the first program of its kind delivered at a Canadian civilian 
institution.

...

For the entire article, see
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/gleaner/article/819950

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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