Gov. Stitt Announces $4 Billion Aluminum Plant for Oklahoma
The Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) plant should bring in over 1,000 jobs and 1,800 indirect jobs.
Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) chose Oklahoma to build a $4 billion aluminum plant in Oklahoma, promising over 1,000 jobs and 1,800 indirect jobs.
The plant with be the largest aluminum facility in America.
“This is a monumental day for Oklahoma,” said Governor Kevin Stitt. “We are proud to welcome Emirates Global Aluminum to our state and excited for the generational impact this investment will have on our future. As President Donald Trump looks to onshore our nation’s supply chain for critical minerals, Oklahoma is leading the way in this sector. Thanks to our pro-business environment, Oklahoma is quickly becoming the critical minerals headquarters of the United States.”
The facility will sit on more than 350 acres at the Tulsa Port of Inola, a 2,200-acre industrial park with access to rail, barge transportation, and global waterways.
Once completed, it will reportedly be the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., producing billets, sheet ingots, high-purity aluminum, and foundry alloys.
The Oklahoma legislature has to approve the project.
EGA purchased 80% of Spectro Alloys Corp in Minnesota last year. The company wants to “make further investments to counter the impact of US tariffs.”
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dont give them tax abatements etc
they are benefiting by not having to face tariffs and/or barriers to selling in america
the headlines about jobs
the devils in the details
They will get all the goodies which is why the OK legislature needs to be involved
Why is everyone on this website attacking this new business opportunity?
when business,,new or otherwise has the backing of the government ,,it only leads to trouble for the middle class down the road
pols want to say …look we created 1000 jobs and brought in the business etc but really dont want to talk about the welfare that was given to these companies
not to mention the personal perks a gov official can get when doing favors for companies
its the old
the ends justify the means,,, attitude
and is the exact agenda of the left…yes ,,many times employed by the so called fiscal conservatives who we then call rinos
Why should they be exempted from taxes I have to pay?
A major cost of aluminum smelting is electricity (maybe as much as 14 Megawatt hours per ton, per google).
The key question is: how are they powering the plant (I am guessing natural gas; nukes would be cheaper long term though).
Tuns of wind farms are going up from Enid out through the panhandle. Oklahoma is well suited for the winds. If you can get past the eyesore of the wind farms being up then the wind’s blowing particularly at night that don’t need to power a lot of air conditioners then that electricity can go into the electrical needs of aluminum plant.
Alcoa shuttered their aluminum plant in NC. It sits beside a huge dam intended to power it, but Charlotte needed the electricity.
The TVA went all woke and chose to not produce more power. According to Buck at AoS they were throttling new biz access to power in NE TN.
Trump fired the mofo at the TVA and now they are going nuclear. Hell yeah!
The pollution from aluminum…
It takes large amount of bauxite ore to turn into alumina which makes aluminum.
Kaiser Aluminum had huge plants on the Mississippi River at both Gramercy and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Both of the Kaiser plants had massive natural gas turbines to make their own electricity.
Now the bauxite ore will motor by these two old plants for the long ride up to Tulsa, OK.
When you search, “How many locks between Tulsa Port of Inola and Gulf of America?
A: “There are a total of 18 locks and dams along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) that connect the Tulsa Port of Catoosa to the Gulf of America.”
“It takes large amount of bauxite ore to turn into alumina which makes aluminum.”
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I wonder if there is enough Bauxite in central Arkansas to be worth opening up the mines. 95% of the Bauxite that provided the Aluminum for WW II came from that area; enough for more than 300,000 aircraft.
“I wonder if there is enough Bauxite in central Arkansas to be worth opening up the mines. 95% of the Bauxite that provided the Aluminum for WW II came from that area; enough for more than 300,000 aircraft.”
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Don’t know, my father-in-law worked at the Kaiser Baton Rouge plant and he is long gone.
Both of the Kaiser Aluminum plants in Louisiana brought up the Mississippi River bauxite ore in ocean going dry bulk carriers.
The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System has a maximum depth of nine feet so if they do bring in the bauxite ore from one of the major players they will have to off load from the deep draft ocean going ships onto barges.
Don’t know if the Arkansas mine has the captaincy to supply the big Tulsa plant.
Not if it’s brought by rail and truck
There are the difficulties noted above, but I am fairly sure that we will not have to deal with them because there are more than enough Federal judges who are mortally offended at the concept of something good happening in the United States to guarantee multiple restraining orders to prevent the plant from being built.
Subotai Bahadur
The words ‘federal judge’ are becoming a slur.
Which inexorably leads to another train of thought.
1) Why is ‘federal judge’ becoming a slur?
2) Because their rulings are no longer based on the law and the Constitution as understood by the people, but rather are seen by the people to be based on the judges’ personal and political interests.
3) In our country’s case, the legitimacy of the law and the legal system is grounded in the concept that they applied the same to all regardless of race, color, creed, economic class, or political ideology. If the application of the law differs according to who you are, it strikes at the heart of that legitimacy, and the legitimacy of the government structure that creates or tolerates such differences.
4) If the legitimacy of government enforcement of the law cannot be believed in or trusted, and that includes the very electoral system, what recourse remains for the people.
5) Once that set of lines is crossed, things can get very serious.
Subotai Bahadur