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You're only saying that because of the political baggage that surrounds treatment of native Americans and coal mining and the way we view those things today. T
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
You're only saying that because of the political baggage that surrounds treatment of native Americans and coal mining and the way we view those things today.
The premise that a big infrastructure project will create a bunch of economic opportunity in the local area and people will be better off for it is not a controversial one.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"The premise that a big infrastructure project will create a bunch of economic opportunity in the local area and people will be better off for it is not a controversial one." It certainly is controversial. Some look at this process as economic opportunity, others as indentured servitude and exploitation. There's been a long and sad history of such developments leaving the areas where it happens a polluted, barren carcass.