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Construction workers paint stripes on the new roadway near the Third Street and Fourth Avenue Northeast intersection last November. The roadway improvement was completed last year as part of the Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project.
North Dakota labor union representatives are optimistic about the job opportunities that could exist in the state’s trades in the near future.
“There’s so many major projects sitting on the horizon,” said Pam Trhlik, director of governmental affairs and business development with Laborers’ International Union of North Dakota (LIUNA) in Bismarck.
Montana-Dakota Utilities plans to dismantle the Heskin plant, which will require laborers available in North Dakota, she said. Depending on the future of the Coal Creek Station near Washburn, that also could mean jobs, she said, as could a proposed $400 million ethane-fueled power plant at Williston.
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