About 75 union workers, represented by many Locals from throughout the state of Maryland and Washington, DC, spent time January 8, 2014 in Annapolis, meeting Maryland legislators to remind them of the importance of the Dominion Cove Point export project in Calvert County and the tremendous benefits it will have on the state regarding jobs, tax revenue growth and global environmental impact The project will create more than 3,000 construction jobs during a three-year period. Because Dominion has signed a project labor agreement, a majority of these jobs will go to local union members. The labor benefits grow from there. It’s not just the 175 full-time, well-paying, highly skilled jobs at the station once the facility is operating. Based on a U.S. Department of Commerce formula, up to another 14,000 permanent jobs are expected to result from the project nationally in businesses ranging from pipe manufacturers to accounting firms. Dominion Cove Point LNG Terminal is located on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby. It is one of the nation’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facilities. Dominion acquired Cove Point from Williams on September 5, 2002, and began receiving ships in the summer of 2003. In 2009, Dominion finished an expansion […]
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