To the point that people will buildadam, or a nuclear power plant (or with Iran and some Arabian states, natural gas supplies) specifically to supply one of these smelters.
This week, a Canadian company which helped build the dam was convicted of paying bribes in a corruption case that could change the way big development deals are struck.
Since USACE was already budgetarily hard-pressed to maintain the very valuable lock and dam infrastructure and no third party would builda network for a single application, we went back to the drawing board.