@BeNotAfraid
Figured since nobody has responded I would give it a shot....
I’m local…this battle has been raging for the last few weeks/months here. The city council seems hell bent on bringing these guys in for some reason. The topic has dominated local talk radio recently and I think for the most part the community is opposed to it.
There is a group of rural homeowners and business owners who are about to have their properties annexed by the city – and get hammered with tax assessments for new infrastructure - who just turned in a petition with enough signatures to force a city-wide vote on this. In a vote this will most certainly be voted down as long as the city doesn’t fuck with the vote.
Everything has been brought up by the citizens, including the things talked about in this article, and the City still stands behind this project.
If there is an “honest vote” on this, it WILL fail. I guess we’ll see. I’m 15 miles away from this so I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to a vote, but I’m hoping it fails.
Edit - Also worth noting, the Chinese have already had a large presence in the GF community over the years because they fund aviation training for their pilots at the University of NoDak, which is located within 2 miles of where this plant is going to be built.