Vocational schools across the state are offering natural gas job training programs, as Don Roessler explains. He highlights the Western Area Career & Technology Center in Washington County.

As we know, with natural gas development, comes jobs. Most only think about the drill rig roughnecks when they think about these jobs, but it goes much deeper than that, as there are many support industries that service the natural gas industry and infrastructure fields.

From marcelluscoalition.org

A recent article posted here by a young man named Mike Petro, who is persuing a career in the natural gas industry, got me looking at how more of our young people can find employment after college or even get entry level jobs right out of high school. This led to me to look at our local vocational-technical school (vo-tech), here in Washington County, Pa., Western Area Career & Technology Center, to see what kind of training is available in these support industries.

They offer many courses to high school students as well as adults who wish to pursue an entry level career in these support industries. Here are some examples of those courses available.

http://eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/natural-gas-job-training-is...