The siting of a power plant in a particular area will have an impact on the industrial growth of that area in terms of power availability in the long run and in terms of local employment in the short run. Both of these effects are political in nature, and both have positive and negative effects depending on whether the area was originally rural or industrial and whether it was a thriving or depressed (in terms of lack of employment) locality. Political effects are largely power plant independent, being associated largely with the area and its population. However, they should not be forgotten.