Testimonial: Barkley Project Group – S&T Internship Program – Green Jobs Employer
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Barkley Project Group is a clean energy consultancy. We’re project managers and we work pretty much exclusively with First Nations in BC and Yukon.
Barkley has a few different areas of expertise bringing clean energy projects and energy-efficiency work from an idea stage into a pre-feasibility design stage and ready to really get the projects going and implemented.
Janelle Flett recently joined our team and she's from Alberta and joined via the generation power program which matches employers that work on clean energy, specifically clean energy projects that involve Indigenous communities, with Indigenous youth that are interested in getting a start in the clean energy sector
Janelle and I are working on a few different types of projects together some energy efficiency and clean energy initiatives as well as solar development for a couple of Nations
I initially found this job through Indigenous Clean Energy under the generation power cohort so through them they actually were able to set me up with this STIP internship.
What initially sparked my interest in clean energy is growing up near the oil sands. I'm not opposed to them per say but I would say that I wanted to find better solutions to creating energy.
I would encourage any employer in the low-carbon economy sector to consider hiring interns and using wage subsidy funding like through the STIP program as a way to bring young people into their company and through very little financial risk on themselves - see if they might be able to have a long-term career with them.
What really excites me about Barkley Project Group and where we're going in the future is just that we are able to respond to the needs of the communities that we work with and in a way that is solutions focused and really looking toward a clean energy economy that works for everybody and makes a significant impact for the future of all of us.
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