Unions disrupt rally against power plant

PROVIDENCE – Members of the state builders union made their presence felt May 26 as they disrupted a Statehouse rally organized by opponents of a proposed Burrillville power plant.

The clash lasted for about five minutes as both groups shouted down one another in the cavernous Statehouse rotunda, ecoRI News reported.

After making little noise at a May 23 public hearing in Burrillville for the Clear River Energy Center, labor groups with the Rhode Island Builders Association showed up in large numbers at the Statehouse to neutralize a rally organized by residents to support a bill that could derail the natural gas project. Unions, however, want the $700 million project and the 300 construction jobs it will create.

Opponents of the project say the plant could be built elsewhere or that the proposal could be replaced with renewable-energy projects. •

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