So many small towns in the West are dependent on one major source of income. When it is gone the towns often lose most of their population.
I knew people who worked on those plants when they were being built.
Page AZ plants are gone.
Nucla is gone.
APS and PNM plants in New Mexico will soon be shut down.
Thankfully our plant, far east of there, built about the same time as the Craig plants and Page plants, is still running with modifications brought on by Obama.
There are several other big coal fields in the West, which were planned to have a mine mouth power plant built. all those have been canceled.
Many small towns were economically and socially successful until the left shows up.. Then the leftists block historical businesses ( commercial fishing, logging, ranching, farming, sheep herding, mining .. ) that supported family and secondary businesses - like restaurants, clothing stores, etc.