[emge]

If there truly was a future in steel, where people could still walk into a plant and get a well-paying job, that would be exactly what we need.

However, in a world where you need a two-year diploma to get a job in steel, and an aging and largely retiring workforce, there's nothing steel does anymore that isn't outweighed by the eventual benefits from them closing down.

With the newer Nanticoke works in place, it seems highly unlikely that the eventual consolidation of their operations will retain Hamilton as a part unless they are forced to, especially given how they've slashed jobs in other areas.

Of course brownfield remediation is lengthy, complicated, and expensive -- but if it's inevitable, and it certainly seems to be, however nostalgic we wax, let's look beyond 2012... so that remediation happens by 2032 instead of 2042.