The recent changes to the Idaho Constitution approved by voters ... you know.. the ones promoted on TV that said we had to protect our rights to vote by eliminating our rights to vote on debts. Anyway there is a big story in the Idaho Statesman today about a Chinese consortium looking to get the people at the Boise Airport to build a bunch of stuff for long term leases Chinese Looking At Boise if you want the whole story.
The Governor and Mayor Bieter along with other assorted and sundry politicos have made it clear the door to Idaho and Boise are wide open to the Chinese. Additionally, the Chinese are looking at building a coal fired fertilizer plant in eastern Idaho. Of course there won't be any environmental concerns using coal. They will ship the CO2 generated to Wyoming for injection into the ground to aid in natural gas production in Wyoming.
Safe use of coal is like talking about safe cigarettes. You get cheap heat from coal but there are all manner of toxic issues to deal with when coal is combusted and the stack gases exhausted to the atmosphere. Never mind that the prevailing wind blows toward the east.
The Chinese project at the Boise Airport will be a 10, 000 to 30,000 acre fully self contained technology park similar to what is constructed in China. This will be in conjunction with the inland air freight hub. China is now the second largest world economy passing up Japan this year.
Much remains before this gets off the ground no matter which side of the issue you are on in this revelation.
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