As part of the conditions for expansion, the plant owners requested housing for its potential new workers.

For their part, plant owners say they are modernizing in way that can improve safety.

But local officials rallied behind the plant owners to ease the fears of the community.

There are those who advocate that plant owners talk sympathetically to their plants.

The commission required plant owners to submit plans on how they would comply.

But the plant owners beg to differ, and federal officials seem headed in that direction.

In March 2009 the plant owner announced the paper mill would never reopen.

So far, however, the plant owners have said no.

Each operator represents a substantial investment by the plant owner.

Whenever new standards are put in place, the plant owners bribe the inspectors into letting them use the old ones rather than make any changes.