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DEC2011 Commissioners CommissionersMeeting Alcoa CleanTech

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  • In a power point presentation, Chairman Dunevant challenged the numbers released by Alcoa last week as to their options on the table, particularly the $1.2 million financial guarantee from Alcoa to Stanly County should the 450 Clean Tech jobs not materialize. Dunevant pressed the value of this guarantee over the life of the 50-year license, asserting that Alcoa had not factored in depreciation. Dunevant contended that due to inflation that amount would be worth only $500,000 by the year 2020 and just $188,000 at the end of 50 years when the license would again be up for renewal.
  • On the flip side, Dunevant said that Alcoa’s profits from dam revenues would grow at a 3.15% inflation rate from Alcoa’s reported $25 million per year to $114 million at the end of 50 years.
  • “I hope you got that… $1.2 million down to $185,000 and $25 million up to $114 million,” Dunevant stated.
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  • In addition to seeing this as inequitable for Stanly County, Dunevant made the point that the $1.2 million would not come directly to Stanly County, rather the funds would go to an economic development trust to be co-managed by the commissioners and the N.C. Department of Commerce. “The money would not go to human services, education or public safety, but to an economic development trust,” Dunevant said.
  • “We will be looking for some long-term guarantee that offsets the inflation. A penalty is supposed to create an incentive to perform, not the opposite,” Dunevant said regarding the $1.2 million guarantee now on the table that shrinks over time.
  • “That shows me that water is becoming a commodity,” Snyder said. “We don’t need to allow a coup to obtain a license for clean water at the expense of the public.”
  • “Alcoa thought they’d get a rubber stamp for renewal, but there’s too much discord in this community for that,” Bryant said. We need to recapture the FERC license and remove Alcoa.”
  • “It’s ludicrous to think the commissioners don’t want jobs,” Dick said.
  • Bramlett warns of selling Stanly County’s birthright
  • “We don’t need to sell our birthright for a cup of soup,
  • “I’ve never seen bribery and blackmail like what had been going on the past couple weeks,” he said regarding the Alcoa commitments and Clean Tech deadline. “Alcoa has falsified records and poisoned this river. You have every right not to trust Alcoa.”
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  • Now that Alcoa has announced the permanent closure of its Badin Works smelting plant, the company must allow for the proper and necessary environmental investigation of the site before it runs away with profits from our water and leaves us with a toxic mess.
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    Now that Alcoa has announced the permanent closure of its Badin Works smelting plant, the company must allow for the proper and necessary environmental investigation of the site before it runs away with profits from our water and leaves us with a toxic mess.
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