The record

Six documented risks.

Sourced from the 300-page PSD air permit application, published scientific literature, and the operating history of comparable facilities. Every claim here is one you can check.

Air

150,000,000 ft³

of emissions per month, estimated

—~425 tons/year of hydrogen fluoride, an EPA-listed extremely hazardous substance.
—Nitrogen oxides at ~316.2 tons/year, plus sulfur dioxide and hazardous air pollutants.
—Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) carrying heavy metals.
—Requires a PSD permit from ODEQ and EPA Region 6 — both take public comment.

Water

1.5M tons

of alumina powder, by barge, annually

—The facility sits directly on the Verdigris River.
—Alumina is a metallic dust: respiratory irritant to people, gill-clogging to fish.
—Fluoride bioaccumulates through the aquatic food chain.
—Mussels, fish, and the river’s whole ecology absorb the difference.

Cattle & agriculture

90%+

of cattle fluoride exposure is dietary

—Fluoride deposits irreversibly in bone; a cow eats 50+ lbs of forage daily.
—Dental fluorosis: mottled enamel, rapid wear, reduced feed intake.
—Skeletal fluorosis: lameness, deformity, stunted growth, reproductive failure.
—Cornwall Island, 1979: ~300 tons/year collapsed every herd within five miles.

Traffic & noise

24 / 7

continuous industrial operation

—17+ exhaust stacks running without pause, day and night.
—Over 1,000 additional barges a year on the Verdigris.
—Heavy truck traffic on roads built for grain and cattle.
—Sets the precedent for an industrial park where farmland is now.

The grid

1,000 MW

of continuous demand on Oklahoma power

—A single facility drawing more than many Oklahoma cities combined.
—PSO is the primary regional provider and would carry the load.
—Grid reliability and residential rates are both exposed.
—A live rate case is where ordinary customers can intervene.

The region

Green Country

not just Inola, not just Rogers County

—Prevailing winds carry emissions toward Claremore, Pryor, Broken Arrow, Coweta, and Tulsa.
—From the hay capital of the world to the pollution capital of Oklahoma.
—Regional air quality is a shared asset that no single town consented to spend.
—Two thirds of a million people live within thirty miles of the stacks.

The precedent

This has already happened once.

In 1979, an aluminum smelter on Cornwall Island released roughly 300 tons of fluoride a year. Within five miles, cattle herds collapsed — skeletal fluorosis, lameness, tooth loss, starvation. The study is not disputed. Inola's permit application proposes more.

Cornwall Island, 1979~300 t/yr

Complete herd collapse within a five-mile radius. Documented, litigated, settled.

Inola, as proposed~425 t/yr

Forty-two percent more fluoride, in the middle of what was called the hay capital of the world.

Exposure route

Over 90% of a cow’s fluoride intake is dietary. A cow eats 50+ lbs of forage a day, off ground the plume settles on.

Accumulation

Fluoride deposits irreversibly in bone and teeth. There is no treatment and no way to unwind it.

Outcome

Mottled enamel and rapid wear, then lameness, deformity, stunted growth, reproductive failure.

None of this was hidden. It was simply rushed.

Twenty-three days from the first public notice to an approved project plan — and a bill of tax incentives written in between.

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