I noticed on page 3 of Dan Scott's speech notes posted at the Dakota Watercooler, he briefly addresses the environmental extremist group that quickly popped up to oppose the "gorilla project" Elk Point refinery.
It so happens my column in the Rapid City Journal yesterday was about that subject:
Once completed, they expect to employ about 1,800 people.
But even though project executive J.L. "Corky" Frank says Hyperion plans "the most environmentally sound energy center in the United States," environmental groups are nevertheless already throwing monkey wrenches at the project.
Save Union County Committee, a new environmental group with ties to the San Francisco-based National Refinery Reform Campaign, is already expressing "concerns."
From the anti-industry rhetoric on the group’s website, I wouldn’t look for them to say anything favorable about this project. They apparently see any refinery as an engine of planetary doom.
We may be getting a first-hand lesson on why our gas prices are so high and why America’s energy policy has been crippled, right here in our home state: Radical liberals who interfere with anything that makes America stronger.
If it goes through, this refinery could bring lots of jobs and economic benefit to South Dakota, not to mention providing some much-needed refinery capacity to our over-stressed petroleum industry. But some on the Left so despise industry, free market and anything that makes America stronger, they're willing to throw all that away.
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