@wjmaggos @neanderthalsnavel They certainly can be.
Look at a lot of industry, governments bend over backwards paying for things with other people's money to accommodate industry. One mine got the government to pay for millions of dollars of fiber optic cable run for hundreds of kilometers. Another got the government to pay for all kinds of power lines. One mill got effectively free power. This happens all the time. You can say "That's not a handout!" but I don't know what else you'd call it -- Infrastructure built and managed to the middle of nowhere so some company can do what they want. After the mine or the mill closes, the road either must be maintained forever or decommissioned.
Look at a lot of industry, governments bend over backwards paying for things with other people's money to accommodate industry. One mine got the government to pay for millions of dollars of fiber optic cable run for hundreds of kilometers. Another got the government to pay for all kinds of power lines. One mill got effectively free power. This happens all the time. You can say "That's not a handout!" but I don't know what else you'd call it -- Infrastructure built and managed to the middle of nowhere so some company can do what they want. After the mine or the mill closes, the road either must be maintained forever or decommissioned.
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