Open nowODEQ public comment on the EGA air permit is open. Your comment becomes part of the legal record.How to comment
01 — The proposal
Five numbers, honestly stated.
Every figure below is drawn from the air permit application filed with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, from published company statements, and from the peer-reviewed record. We have no interest in exaggeration. The plain numbers are enough.
Distance3miles to Inola schoolsThe proposed site sits on the Verdigris, upwind of the elementary and high school.
Fluoride emissions425tons per yearHydrogen fluoride — an extremely hazardous substance under EPA classification.
Output800ktons of aluminum a yearRoughly doubling total United States primary aluminum production.
Electricity1,000+megawatts, continuousA permanent draw on the Oklahoma grid, paid for in everyone’s rates.
River traffic1,000+barges added per year1.5 million tons of alumina powder moved annually up the Verdigris.
A herd is forty years of a family's work. It does not survive a permit.
In 1979, a smelter releasing roughly 300 tons of fluoride a year collapsed every cattle herd within five miles of it. Inola's permit application proposes 425.
Read the documented risks →Start anywhere. It all leads to the same place.
Three pages, each one built from the public record.
The mapWho breathes itWatch the plume radius grow from three miles to thirty, and see how many people live inside it. Town positions are projected from published coordinates.Open the map →The recordSix documented risksAir, water, cattle, traffic, the grid, and the region — sourced from the permit application and the scientific literature.Read the risks →The timelineTwenty-three daysFrom the first public notice to an approved project plan. Plus who actually owns this facility, and what was never asked.See how it happened →
This is decided by permits, votes, and public comment.
Every one of them has a deadline and a person on the other end of it. Pick one thing and do it today.
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