This sort of thing is absolutely, 100% these incumbent companies lobbying their governments to give them a short term economic benefit at the high cost to both

This sort of thing is absolutely, 100% these incumbent companies lobbying their governments to give them a short term economic benefit at the high cost to both employees of that company, employees that work in that local economy, taxpayers in that economy, and the local economy as a whole, and even that company themselves medium term. Who would want to work in Idaho after reading this?