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UCP government spending $20 million for University of Lethbridge upgrades

The Alberta government is spending a good pile of cash to upgrade the district heating and cooling centre at the University of Lethbridge.

It’s located in University Hall which was built back in 1971.

The province says these $20 million in upgrades are critical to the continued operation and viability of the vast majority of the current U of L campus.

Student residences, academic spaces and research labs will all benefit from a more efficient and functional system.

Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf says this new capital maintenance funding for the U of L – is money that’s been deferred for over a decade – and is a welcome influx of capital to the city. “This is spending that will benefit students, help control the cost of future maintenance to the university, and will also help the community by ensuring that well-calculated and focused projects are creating jobs right here in Lethbridge.”

The province says these upgrades at the U of L are expected to create around 112 jobs in the Lethbridge area.

Funding for the University of Lethbridge project is part of an additional $98 million from the Kenney government to post-secondary institutions for accelerated capital maintenance and renewal.

U of L President, Dr, Mike Mahon says  this investment in a new energy centre at the University of Lethbridge not only creates immediate employment, but will lower the institutions carbon footprint and provide ongoing operational savings through energy efficiency. “This new plant and supporting infrastructure will reliably meet the heating and cooling requirements for approximately 80% of our campus buildings.”

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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