2007 Report Examined Incentives and Environmental Questions Around ThyssenKrupp
Archived WKRG coverage addressed public questions about incentives and environmental effects connected to the planned ThyssenKrupp steel mill.
In August 2007, the station reported on the public questions surrounding the planned ThyssenKrupp steel mill in north Mobile County, with particular attention to the environmental effects of the project and the size and structure of the public incentives offered to recruit it.
The station said viewers most often asked how to get a job at the mill, while also seeking information about environmental impacts.
At the time, Alabama had offered the company $400 million in incentives, including $33 million from Mobile County. The report examined how the incentives were to be used and where the funding would come from.
This is historical coverage of the questions and figures discussed at that time; it is not a current environmental or financial assessment.
The site selection and what followed
ThyssenKrupp announced in May 2007 that it had chosen the north Mobile County site near Calvert over a finalist site in St. James Parish, Louisiana, for a combined carbon steel and stainless steel complex.
The complex later passed out of ThyssenKrupp’s hands. Its stainless operations went to Outokumpu in 2012, and in 2014 the carbon steel plant was sold to ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, which run it as AM/NS Calvert.
