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Article: Did TVA kill steel plant chances?: Without assurance of river access, state's biggest industrial project went to Mobile.
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- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Byline: Eric Fleischauer
Jul. 1--"German steelmaker picks Lawrence County for 2,700-worker plant."
But for inaction by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that might have been the headline in the Press-Register of Mobile on May 12. Instead, the headline substituted "Mobile" for "Lawrence County."
Whether a site in Lawrence County would have survived the competition for the biggest industrial project in the state's history is unknowable, but two things seem clear:
--The steelmaker eliminated Lawrence County from the competition because it could not get timely assurances that TVA would provide the site with river access.
--Other ...