Training the next generation of TAPS workers

Alaska kids can’t escape childhood without a tale or two about the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Eirik Henry heard the stories. He knew he was going to be a welder before he could walk.
“I think it’s a lot of fun to put something together that someone else can’t.”
Henry says he may not have understood the economics of the pipeline, but he knew it was a big deal for the state. Henry is in his second year as a welding apprentice at the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center. Whi