Posted on 04/02/2009 7:38:40 AM PDT by RS_Rider
U.S. Steel is suspending indefinitely the $1 billion modernization of its Clairton coke plant, a massive, multi-year project that was expected to create more than 600 construction jobs.
The Pittsburgh steel producer said it was forced to make the "difficult but necessary decision" because of the economic slowdown that has prompted it to lay off about 7,000 union workers in recent months.
"We cannot speculate as to when conditions will improve enough to allow work to resume," the company said in a prepared statement.
When announced in November 2007, the project was hailed as the region's largest construction project since Pittsburgh International Airport was completed in 1992. U.S. Steel said it would build two new coke batteries, a plant that would generate electricity from gas produced by the coke-making process, and add state-of-the-art environmental controls to existing operations
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That change thing just kicked in.
You know, working at Alan Wood Steel in Bridgeport, Pa, was one of the best jobs that I ever had, and I worked on the Batteries.
When they pushed the coke out at night it lit up the sky in the nearby town of Swedeland.
Locals called it "The Swedeland Sunset."
Hard, hot, and cruel, it was great work.
Of course endless regulations and union demands got that plant shipped right to Japan. - At least the BOF was shipped there.
The batteries are long gone and the only thing remaining is the rolling mill, which is some other company, of course.
We worked endless swing shifts to keep it going.
You are correct - they don't like to be shut.
I didn't think that you could restart one after a protracted cool down. - too much damage.
If the EPA is sniffing around then that isn't good.
Obviously the job of destroying American industry is not yet complete if they are on the prowl.
Of course, the irony, which is obvious to most, is that many of these captains of industries' employees voted with their unions to bring Obama in. Now, their benefit from electing this administration is unemployment or underemployment for all.
Filmed in a Russian church in Cleveland
They filmed in Ohio and West Virginia
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