A generation ago, the Public Service Company of Oklahoma bowed to pressure and stopped construction on its Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant. The site has set vacant at Inola ever since. That will change, as the land becomes the new Inola River and Rail Industrial Park.
The first tenant will break ground next month on a $350-million paper plant. Inola Chamber of Commerce President Scott Roy says the Rogers County town has an egger work force, ready for the plant.
The taxes on the facility should mean an additional $2-million to the Inola Schools. Right now, the schools are getting less than $1,000 from the undeveloped land.
Other businesses are looking at the site. Roy says it has access to highways, the railroad and the navigation channel