DVBC urges refinery support at DENR board’s meeting
DAKOTA DUNES — The Dakota Valley Business Council sent out a message Monday urging its members to voice their support for the $10 billion, 400,000-barrel-per-day when the state South Dakota Department Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Board of Minerals and Enviornment holds public comment meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Elk Point, S.D.
The DVBC took that stand about a year ago and spoke in support of the project before the public hearings on rezoning the 3,292 acres for the project held by the county zoning board and board of county commissioners.
DVBC President Greg Miner said in a statement that the business council wants its members to voice support for the project and to ask the DENR “to objectively evalutate the Hyperion Air Quality Permit and act on it without delay.”
Following the two days of public comment in Elk Point and a tour of the proposed site about seven miles north of there, the BME will hold a trial-like contested case hearing on the air quality permit over two weeks, one each in May and June, in Pierre. There’s no telling how long the board will review the evidence and application before ruling on it.
Hyperion needs the permit before the project can proceed.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Really? Do businesses want to go out on a limb and have their name attached to Hyperion? I think businesses and people alike are getting a clue that advocating Hyperion is a risky branch to step out on.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Does anyone really believe that the DENR is going to listen to the public’s cry for reason and sanity on this project? With all the money being talked about here two things are for sure: 1) The DENR board are bought and paid for, 2) Any DENR member that wants to keep their job will give Gov.Rounds what he wants. I doubt that few if any members of the so-called “DVBC” even knows anyone in the proposed refinery area. But I forgot, money is so much more imporant than letting farmers make a living or allowing people that want to live in the country live in peace and quiet. And I thought George W. Bush was an extremist.