Operating Engineers Local 825 backs PSE&G 5-year proposal to replace aging gas infrastructure

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$320 million a year program would create 500 direct jobs

Springfield, NJ – March 2, 2015 – International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 today announced support for PSE&G’s proposal to invest $1.6 billion over the next 5 years to modernize its gas systems.

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Local 825 Business Manager Greg Lalevee responds to anti-pipeline editorial with a call for objectivity.

As business manager of an organization with 6,500 members, most of whom reside and raise their families in New Jersey, I would like to take issue with several of the points in the Jan. 2 Press editorial, “New pipelines aren’t good energy policy.”

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Local 825 and ELEC back PennEast Pipeline construction as stimulus to construction jobs and economic development

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SPRINGFIELD, NJ, Sept. 2, 2014 – Operating Engineers Local 825 and the Engineers Labor-Employer Cooperative (ELEC) today jointly announced full support for a proposed 100-mile long pipeline from Luzerne County, Pa., into New Jersey.

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