“This project has the opportunity really to be a ticket to the middle class for many people. I mean, right now, people don’t have a job, they don’t have the skill set, they want to work. And how do they get there?” Rogers said. “This project — over that long construction period, and with the size and magnitude and complexity of the project — will have some entering the project with no skills and exiting the project fully trained, ready to face the rest of their lives.”