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Oklahoma Primary Aluminum has revised its proposed potline fluoride cap to 0.64 lb per metric ton of aluminum. A lower proposed limit is not a permit approval. The air, water and farmland questions still need answers.
PER METRIC TON ALUMINUM
PROPOSED POTLINE CAP
MORE THAN A CITY
LIMITS ON THE BOOKS
Emirates Global Aluminium of the U.A.E. and Century Aluminum — filing as Oklahoma Primary Aluminum — want a $4 billion smelter on 350 acres at the Tulsa Port of Inola, making 750,000 tons a year. Their air permit application sits at Oklahoma DEQ now. Prevailing winds here run south to north: from that stack, over this town.
Scrubbers, enclosed storage, continuous monitors, best available control technology — “the lowest-emitting smelter in the world.” The company calls its figures preliminary and says it will run below the limits.
KJRH reported the revised potline cap on September 3. It is not an annual whole-facility total or an approved permit. DEQ still must evaluate the proposal, modeling and controls before a permitting decision.
A federal court returned Attorney General Drummond’s lawsuit to state court. This procedural ruling does not decide the project’s safety.
KGOU reports Tulsa Ports authorized a challenge to the ballot petition—not a lawsuit against the moratorium at that meeting.
DEQ is reviewing the air permit. Public participation is written into that process — if people use it.
Trustees unanimously extended the moratorium through April 7, 2027, and approved an April referendum on a town-wide smelting ban.
About the 1,000 jobs — nobody in Inola is against work. We are asking that they come with an enforceable fluoride limit a farm town can live beside, a health and soil baseline taken before anything is built, and a power deal that doesn’t land on residential bills. That isn’t opposition. That’s due diligence.
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