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Portage College
Bio
Dr. Trent Keough is President and CEO of Portage College. Portage is nearly 50 years old and serves a northeastern Alberta population which includes 7 First Nations and four of Alberta’s eight Metis Settlements. Trent has 20 years’ experience training people for the oil and gas industries in places like Newfoundland, Qatar, Oman, the Emirates, and for the past 10 years in Alberta. At Portage, Trent has been working to build Canada’s first pipeline training centre on the 140 acres Portage now owns in Athabasca County. When fully completed, the Pipeline Training Centre will be an in situ training site simulating remote work locations and offering boots on the ground work on pipelines, including construction, operations, maintenance, and emergency response to spills and leaks.