AUDIO: Hyperion rallies support ahead of final public showdown
Hyperion vice president Preston Phillips, who spent time at the company’s Elk Point office last week and will be there again this week, said Hyperion has also been calling supporters, asking them to express their views at the meeting.
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April 9th, 2009 at 8:58 am
I see Preston is still being advised by Saint Consulting on what to say and do. Interesting how he is “inflating” the numbers of refinery jobs this is suppose to create. How desperate is this company? Check out this link here
http://www.examiner.com/x-4075-Chicago-NIMBY-Politics-Examiner~y2009m3d6-Will-the-Big-NIMBY-Fight-Happen
Jay Vincent (of Saint Consulting) just posted this article about how the “recession” might help companies are who are fighting NIMBY groups. Sounds curiously familiar to what Preston has been saying to all the media as of late. Is Hyperion speaking the truth about how people really feel in this area or is Hyperion saying what they think will make everything sound good? You be the judge.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am
The idea that Preston Phillips knows anything is just appalling. Just one look and listen to this clown gives one the feeling of a real bad used car salesman trying to make one last sale before the hurricane comes and blows him away. At this point, how can anyone with a logical mind and a B.S. detector even take Hyperion seriously. I will admitt that Gov. Rounds is a supply-side business first republican, but how can even he think that this project will ever get built? Why doesn’t the Journal do some real reporting on Hyperions lack of water and power or their little problem with all the waste water? Seems they need to buy more land for a 3 square mile lake to hold the waste water but no one else in the area is selling. The real story will be when the state completely ignores the wishes of those at the public hearing and give all the permits to a group that has nearly lied about everything.