Those inland ports in the northeast part of Oklahoma just keep bringing ’em in, don’t they?
As part of a $200 billion announcement this past week from President Donald Trump, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Emirate Global Aluminium by which EGA is set to invest $4 billion near the Port of Inola to build an aluminum production plant. If built, it will be quite the get for the Stitt administration, which has a history of big economic development announcements turning sour.
One thing I’m curious about with this whole deal is how Stitt and others will pronounce the word “aluminium” in press conferences and other public appearances. The non-American spelling is in the name of the company, after all. Do we just go ahead and change it as part of the deal and count that toward the investment in Oklahoma, or are state officials routinely going to mispronounce the name of a massive company?
Whatever the result, it will be humorous to hear, and it will be important to keep tracking Oklahoma’s return what Stitt said will be a $255 million state investment in the company’s facility.
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