Oklahomans Celebrate New Aluminum Plant—Forget It's Basically a Toxic Landlord With Diplomatic Immunity

Oklahomans Celebrate New Aluminum Plant—Forget It's Basically a Toxic Landlord With Diplomatic Immunity

Fire up the confetti cannons and slap a "Made in America" sticker on it—because a shiny new aluminum factory is coming to Oklahoma!

But wait—before everyone starts waving tiny American flags and chanting "jobs!" like it's 1994, let’s take a slightly less patriotic look under the hood.

First plot twist:

The company bringing this metal monstrosity to town? Saudi-owned.

Not American. Not Oklahoman. Not even North American. But sure, let’s act like this is a win for “domestic manufacturing.”

Second plot twist:

They’re not paying taxes. Like, at all. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

A multi-billion-dollar foreign enterprise just got the OK to drop a poison factory in the heartland for free.

But it creates jobs!

Yes—thousands of jobs!

Jobs that may, coincidentally, also include slow-motion exposure to industrial toxins, compromised drinking water, and a scenic view of red mud runoff.

For the uninitiated, red mud isn’t a trendy new clay mask.

It’s a byproduct of aluminum production that’s so corrosive it makes acid rain look like LaCroix. And it’s now part of Oklahoma’s five-year plan.

In summary:

A foreign-owned company

Will pay zero taxes

To build a toxic aluminum plant

That pollutes American land, water, and air

While hiring locals to breathe in the side effects

And rely on underfunded healthcare to treat it.

America: where we lease out the land, dodge the tax bill, pollute the community, and sell it back as “economic opportunity.”