A complex deal is taking shape to revive the Pacific Northwest's last remaining aluminum smelter. Alcoa idled its Intalco Works smelter near Ferndale, Washington, a year-and-a-half ago and laid off virtually all the workers there. The plan to bring this industry back involves a new owner, cash from taxpayers and an uncertain new contract for cut-rate wholesale power.
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Port Economic Director Don Goldberg says Alcoa, which owns the facility, is in talks with a company that would reopen it as an aluminum smelter and another that could use it to produce steel from scrap metal.
Cincinnati Magazine
December 16, 2020
I was on my way to the bathroom when I accidentally woke up John Cleese. I had no idea he was napping on a couch in the lounge below the Taft Theatre stage, and my clops down the stairs made him sit up. I was horrified. Upstairs, the screening of
Monty Python and the Holy Grail had about 15 minutes to go, after which John (I can call him that now) would come on and answer written questions from the audience. The emcee (me) had sorted the cards and decided to squeeze in a quick bathroom run before meeting the guest of honor backstage. Our bleary-versus-bladder introduction wasn’t the one I’d hoped for.