HAVING OUR BACKS: LABORERS THAT BUILD NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

摘要

May Va Lor is soft spoken and petite, but she can summon a lot of muscle when needed. Va Lor, a labor energy research expert, can turn on the same strength that has built the Alaskan oil and Rockies Express natural gas pipelines. She is equally adept at exercising that strength in the public policy corridors in Congress and state or local government chambers across North America. She is an excellent story teller, it turns out. In her role as the energy research analyst for the Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA), Va Lor works to help shift the public debate on energy infrastructure as personified in the national and state campaigns opposing hydraulic fracturing (frack-ing) and pretty much any large oil or natural gas project. TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL Pipeline is right in the center of her radar. And LiUNA continues to have a huge stake in all of the major recent and future natural gas pipeline efforts.