Australia’s largest aluminum smelter needs subsidies in order to afford subsidized electricity.
From 2021:
From this week:
Jerome Dozol, who took over as chief executive in July, said the energy price on offer was too high for the Tomago smelter near Newcastle to keep running without government assistance.
DB2
When I was young bauxite from Jamaica was shipped to British Columbia, Canada, where hydro power was abundant.
The Captain
Montana had a Dam that ran a whole aluminum smelter plant, until Exon came knocking on their door, and told them they could make more money selling the electricity to California than making aluminum. So the plant had to go and Exon received the electricity. Ahhhh the good old days when Exon was still able to sell electricity for a pretty penny.