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From: Jim H Clark [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:29 PM
To: Redmond, Jim
Subject: Re: Leopold /Culver take some heat
Jim--I think you should send this to our chapter excom listserv.
I don't think it has been in the DM Register.
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From: "Redmond, Jim" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:17 PM
Subject: Leopold /Culver take some heat
From: Redmond, Jim
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:16 PM
To: Redmond, Jim; Neila Seaman; Carrels, Peter; Jane Clark
Cc: John H. Davidson; James F Heisinger
Subject: Leopold /Culver take some heat
Wednesday, the following story appeared in the Sioux City Journal; was
something similar in the Register also?
Concerned citizen has a great response Jim I think the weakness
of Paulsen's response could be used in a letter to the editor. Reference
only to jobs, not to public safety and health through proper permitting.
House GOP leader blasts DNR letter on project
• Story
• Discussion
By Dave Dreeszen [log in to unmask] | Posted: Tuesday, August 3,
2010 10:15 pm | (2) Comments
DES MOINES -- The top Republican in the Iowa House called on Gov. Chet
Culver Tuesday to end the state's environmental scrutiny of an oil refinery
planned in neighboring South Dakota.
The GOP leader, Rep. Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, said Iowa Department of
Natural Resources director Richard Leopold, in the form of letters and
potential lawsuits has "thrown up roadblocks" that threaten the Hyperion
Energy Center.
The 400,000-barrel-per day refinery and power plant would be built in rural
Union County, S.D., about a half-hour drive north of Sioux City.
Paulsen noted the $10 billion project would create thousands of new jobs,
many of which would spill over into the Sioux City area. More than 1,450
local workers lost their jobs this spring when John Morrell closed its pork
plant, he noted.
"I'm calling on the governor to order Leopold to stand down and stop
preventing new jobs for Iowans," Paulsen said in a statement.
Culver's office shot back at Paulsen late Tuesday afternoon.
"We just wish Rep. Paulsen was as concerned with job creation in Iowa and
his own legislative district as he is with job creation in South Dakota,"
Culver spokeswoman Polly Carver-Kimm said in an email. "Rep. Paulsen has
tried to kill more than 7,000 new jobs the i-JOBS program has created this
year in Iowa."
At Culver's urging, the Democratically-controlled Legislature pushed through
$800 million in bonding for flood repairs and other infrastructure work.
Culver also defended Leopold's actions regarding Hyperion, saying the
director is "helping us protect the enviroment and create jobs with dozens
of water quality projects the DNR is working on with I-JOBS funds
statewide."
Earlier this month, Leopold, appointed by the Democrat governor after he
took office in 2007, formally asked for an environmental impact statement
for the refinery.
"While the effects of Hyperion Energy Center on Iowa may or may not be
significant, verification by both Iowa and the federal government is
important," Leopold said in letter addressed to Steve Pirner, secretary of
the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The S.D. DENR has not yet responded to Leopold's letter.
In an earlier interview with the Journal, Leopold expressed concern that
emissions from the refinery could cause pollution in western Iowa, and limit
future industrial growth in Sioux City.
Paulsen pointed out the South Dakota DENR approved an air quality permit for
the energy center.
Opponents, including the Sierra Club and two local groups, went to court to
overturn the decision. In June, a judge put the appeal on hold after
granting Hyperion's request to return the permitting process to the state
Board of Minerals and Environment.
Hyperion said it intends to amend its application to include new rules
implemented by the EPA since the permit was granted.
Posted in Local, Local on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:15 pm Updated: 10:21
pm. | Tags: Hyperion, Iowa, Chet Culver, Legislature, South Dakota, Union
County, Elk Point, Refinery
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/article_4135c05e-ccb3-5625-a463-81d06e4206a8.html?mode=story
Concerned Citizen said on: August 4, 2010, 11:35 am
The fact is the SD DENR should have required an Environmental Impact
Statement long before the vote to rezone. The DENR, BME, and HEC were afraid
if the truth about the inescapable pollution of air and water were known to
the public, they would not have public support. HEC was so secretive; they
would not even admit that they might be planning to build a refinery on the
land they were asking the farmers to option. Soon those options will expire.
Then what? Will they put up serious money to buy the land? Where is their
oil source? The current pipelines go elsewhere. It will take another large
chunk of money to acquire the water. The job applications submitted (for
publicity only) are turning yellow in the drawer!
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/article_4135c05e-ccb3-5625-a463-81d06e4206a8.html?mode=story
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