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Unions will help build Vineyard Wind, a win for McCarthy - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition


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Unions will help build Vineyard Wind, a win for McCarthy
Source: By Benjamin Storrow, E&E News • Posted: Monday, July 19, 2021
Workers fit the first of three blades onto a wind power generator in Germany. The Biden administration is celebrating its approval of the country’s first major offshore wind facility. AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Gina McCarthy was a midlevel Massachusetts bureaucrat when a developer first proposed building an offshore wind farm south of Cape Cod in 2000. Two decades later, she is on the cusp of helping make offshore wind in America a reality as President Biden’s top climate adviser. ....

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Vineyard Wind guarantees hundreds of union jobs for offshore project


NEW BEDFORD  Vineyard Wind and a regional union organization signed a project labor agreement along the city s waterfront Friday, guaranteeing at least 500 union jobs for the project s construction and installation off the coast of Martha s Vineyard. 
Lars T. Pedersen, CEO of Vineyard Wind, and David Araujo, president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council, signed the agreement at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal (which will serve as the project s staging and deployment base) in the company of federal, state and local officials.
According to Vineyard Wind, the jobs will go to area residents who will be employed on both land and sea for construction of the 800-megawatt project 15 miles off the coast of Martha s Vineyard. The workers will come from 20 local union affiliates of the regional building trades council.  ....

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