"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 contr

"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.