Two arrested in lockdown at Lusby offices of Dominion contractor over gas export

On the morning of Dec 3, two member of We Are Cove Point locked down at the offices of IHI/Kiewit, a top contractor on Dominion's LNG/fracked gas export project at Cove Point. This was the third day in a row of action in Calvert County to stop Dominion's plans to export fracked gas out of the old, mostly unused gas import plant at Cove Point on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Dominion is in the early stages of a massive rebuild and expansion of the plant to handle large-scale export of fracked gas.

IHI/Kiewit is the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the entire project, is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based IHI Corporation, and has their own main headquarters in Houston, Texas. Perhaps that last item explains why the Dominion project has so far created exactly one local job, with the vast majority of the workers on the project being from Texas and staying at a single hotel with a parking lot full of Texas plates.

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