By Cathy Dobson, from www.theobserver.ca The Observer A 40-year-old welding shop at Lambton College is getting a major overhaul thanks to a $400,000 donation from Imperial Oil, college officials announced Tuesday. The money will help students train in an updated and safer environment and local industries will benefit from a more skilled workforce, said Imperial … Read More
By Cathy Dobson, The Observer www.theobserver.ca ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP – Provident Energy has purchased nearly the entire former Dow site at LaSalle Line and Highway 40 and plans to invest $27 million in the 1,000-acre property. The company, Canada’s second largest handler of natural gas liquids, currently employs 14 people on the site. Six are … Read More
From www.country1039.com A Calgary-based oil and gas company has locked up over 20-thousand acres of land rights in Lambton and Chatham-Kent. Mooncor Oil & Gas Corporation Vice President Richard Cohen says they’ve had a geologist on site for the past four months. The goal is to launch a spin-off company called DRGN Resources that will focus … Read More
From www.theobserver.ca The Observer A pair of Sarnia-area farmers will serve as Canadian representatives in a young leadership program. Dave Park and Christine Russell have been selected among numerous applications for the 2012 American Soybean Association and Dupont Young Leader Program. The program helps train future farm leaders, as they participate in leadership experiences beginning … Read More
By JD Booth www.lambtonshield.com The Lambton Shield If Sarnia is indeed on the path to help position Canada in achieving world-leading biomass innovation, then Cheryl Ebert will likely be helping steer the renewable ship. The research technologist for Lambton College’s Advanced Materials Engineering Research (AMER) Laboratory is engaged in a lot of hush-hush projects. One … Read More
From www.lambtonshield.com The Lambton Shield The local real estate association says it is pleased with sales figures reflecting a “fairly consistent” performance compared with the same-month sales in the last three years. Donna Mathewson, president of the Sarnia-Lambton Real Estate Board, told reporters at a monthly review that sales in the month totalled nearly $36 … Read More
By Tyler Kula, from www.theobserver.ca The Observer The federal government announced $170,000 for Sarnia company Entropex Friday, to be used for a machine that removes odour from plastic before its recycled. A government donation is helping a Sarnia company get the stink out of some of its recycled plastic. Sarnia-Lambton MP Pat Davidson presented … Read More
By Paul Morden, from www.theobserver.ca The Observer Hundreds of call centre jobs Sarnia hoped to land have been hooked instead by Barrie. HGS Canada said this week a former Zellers store in Barrie will become home of the new call centre it held job fairs for last fall in Sarnia and Chatham-Kent. The company said … Read More
by Barbara Simpson, from www.theobserver.ca The Observer Sarnia-Lambton’s Archilles heel may just be its own perception of itself. Fresh research from Nashville-based North Star Destination Strategies suggests the general public may have a more negative impression of their community compared to what outsiders truly think of Sarnia-Lambton. More than 62% of surveyed Sarnia-Lambton residents thought … Read More
From www.lambtonshield.com The Lambton Shield By JD Booth In an ongoing commitment to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of students, faculty and staff, Lambton College has launched an initiative designed to inspire entrepreneurship activities on campus and in the community. Taking its cue from global business incubators, Lambton College’s “The Cube” was developed … Read More
