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Fighting the Goose’s Golden Egg

Analysis: Nothing in the economic history of our state has presented the citizens of Oklahoma with such a divide and a busload of passionate opposing opinions as the proposed Inola Primary Aluminum Plant.  On one side many believe that it is an economic juggernaut to provide financial security for eastern Oklahoma’s children and grandchildren, eliminating the need for so many of them to leave rural Oklahoma just to find a decent job.  On the other side, others believe it’s a first-class ecological disaster.

Proposed Inola Primary Aluminum Plant
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On Inola: Mazzei Was Right

Analysis: I’ve learned something over the last few years that I wish every American understood:

A nation that cannot produce the metals necessary to defend itself, power itself, build its airplanes, manufacture its automobiles, maintain its electrical grid, and supply its factories is not really industrially independent.

That is why the controversy surrounding the proposed aluminum smelter at Inola, Oklahoma, deserves more than campaign slogans.

Rendering of the proposed Inola primary aluminum plant.
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