What you can do

Four things. Pick one today.

This is decided by permits, votes, and public comment — every one of which has a deadline and a person on the other end of it. None of these require money, and only one of them — showing up to the meeting — takes a whole evening.

Two minutesGet on the update listHearings get announced with little notice. The list is how neighbors find out in time to show up.Add your nameTen minutesComment on the air permitODEQ and EPA Region 6 must respond to substantive public comment on the PSD permit. Yours becomes part of the legal record.How to commentOne eveningShow up to the meetingCouncil votes and hearings are decided by who is in the room. Bring your family, sign the speaker list, say your piece.Get the scheduleOne filingIntervene in the PSO rate caseThe grid load lands on residential ratepayers. Filing as an intervenor gives ordinary customers legal standing.Start a filing
Who to contact

A comment on the record beats a hundred posts.

Under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration process, agencies are legally obliged to respond to substantive comments. Say who you are, where you live, and what specifically concerns you. Local detail is what carries weight.

Oklahoma DEQ — Air Quality Division
PSD permit authority

The agency reviewing EGA’s application. Reference the Inola primary aluminum facility in your comment.

EPA Region 6
Federal oversight

Shares authority over Prevention of Significant Deterioration permitting in Oklahoma.

Inola Town Council
Local approval and moratoria

Votes on project plans, zoning, and any pause on permitting and construction.

Rogers County Commissioners
County funding mechanisms

Approved the sales tax increment financing agreement underpinning the project.

The paper trail

Read it yourself. Don't take our word for any of it.

PermitEGA Air Permit ApplicationThe 300+ page PSD filing submitted to ODEQ in February 2026.Open source ↗AgreementEmirates Global Aluminium MOUThe memorandum of understanding behind the joint venture.Open source ↗SummaryFact SheetA one-page summary of the proposal and its documented risks.Open source ↗FilingPro Se Statement of PositionA template for residents filing in the PSO rate case without a lawyer.Open source ↗

We are the people who live here.

Nobody is coming to protect Inola for us. A comment on the permit becomes part of the legal record — the agency has to answer it.

Comment on the permit