In his column “Broken promises in the Mon Valley” (May 8, TribLIVE), Joseph Sabino Mistick says U.S. Steel should “stop stringing us along” with “hemming and hawing and double-speak that is used for corporate bad news.”
He says nobody should have been surprised when the plug was pulled on its promise to modernize the mills in the Mon Valley. Is he unaware that President Biden changed outlook and prospects for steel and steelworkers in Southwestern Pennsylvania, restricting use of gas and favoring production of wind energy?
Conditions and business outlook for the Braddock and Clairton facilities were different in May 2019, before executive actions made it undesirable for our region’s steel and gas firms to implement plans that can still be modified. Poor investments shouldn’t be made due to hope economic wind farm components might be produced in Pittsburgh’s valleys, unless the U.S. government will keep subsidizing creation and/or retention of many jobs.
Alfred A. Kuehn
Cheswick
The writer is CEO of Management Science Associates Inc.