Northcliff Looking To Hire Locally, Keeping Strong Relations With First Nations

New Brunswick’s unemployment rate has been dipping in the last few months, reaching 10.8% in December, but it remains more than 3 percentage points higher than Canada’s 7.3% unemployment rate for December.Northcliff will be focusing on hiring locally, aiming for 300 workers to operate the mine and as high as 500 workers during the construction phase.

"New Brunswick is a very depressed area from an employment standpoint. There are a lot of people here with good skills and good trades backgrounds who cannot find jobs and are working in the oil sands,” Zahovskis said. “There’s no reason to think that we can’t attract 300 people in this area.”The Sisson Project also offers workers the rare opportunity to work near home as the project is located 100 kilometers away from Fredericton, New Brunswick’s capital city.There are several operating mines within the province, so there is a presence of skilled workers.

Zahovskis also stressed the importance of the company’s relationship with First Nation’s communities and their inclusion in many aspects of the project.“We’ve had First Nations employees within our ranks for archaeological studies, for field work, environmental monitoring and so on,” Zahovskis said. “We see them as part of the New Brunswick population and when we say we’re going to hire locally first, that’s what we mean, so First Nations are definitely included.”

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