What do you get when you combine a grifter governor, a disgraced former aerospace CEO, and a quack right-wing lobbyist who promotes white supremacy conspiracy theories?
Apparently a new addition to our Overly Ambitious Oklahoma Business Projects Trivia Quiz!
Earlier this week, Westwin Elements – a company claiming to be America's major critical metals refinery – held a groundbreaking for a fancy test facility they’re constructing in Lawton.
According to media reports, the company will import nickel and cobalt from the Congo all the way to Lawton, where it will then be refined into juice for EV vehicles, fighter jet parts, and other fancy things.
Westwin apparently picked Lawton for the facility because A) the city is giving them money and B) it’s probably the only city that offered to give them money.
The city of Lawton approved an economic development project in late February to designate $24 million in local funding to bring the refinery to the city’s southwest side. Under the agreement, Westwin will build the plan by launching a $150 million Phase 1 by the end of 2023. It promised to bring 2,335 jobs to Lawton by five years and an average income of $100,000.