Sioux City Journal

Save Union County land for future generations

Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008

ELK POINT, S.D. -- I just wonder what God thinks of some of these neighbors who got their farms free (or at least a lot of the land) that their parents and grandparents worked so hard to get and then sold it to somebody they didn't even know for some undisclosed purpose and use.

Hyperion wouldn't tell anybody what they were going to do with the thousands of acres of Union County land they were attempting to acquire. It shows that people have little or no respect for what they get for free or nearly free.

The actions caused by Hyperion have helped break up the churches that our forefathers worked so hard for, and these people apparently don't have any guilt about it. They also break up the neighborhood and don't seem to care. We now have very few neighbors and friends. They divide the whole county.

I am 87 years old and won't be here much longer. I can't even have my funeral in my own church because of all the tension. What a way to have to leave this world.

I was born in and have been a member of the church all my life. And I will say that I hate trouble and tension; I like to be friendly. I will not let Hyperion push more than so far, and they have done that. Help stop Hyperion. The voters of Union County should vote "no" and save our land for future generations. -- Glen Hanson

Story Comments

StopHype wrote on Apr 28, 2008 12:53 PM:

" To the best of my knowledge, Union County still has not received a General Development Plan from Hyperion. That plan should have given specific locations of all uses, buffers, etc., and should have been submitted far before any re-zoning ordinance was ever voted on. Secretive and shaddy are how I would define Hyperion, and now I find out they DO NOT have the funding needed. Surprise! Vote NO!!!! "

SDBorn wrote on Apr 28, 2008 8:32 AM:

" If Hyperion was the cause of the split in the church, then the church in and of itself wasn't very strong to begin with. Is that really Hyperion's fault? "

James wrote on Apr 28, 2008 6:22 AM:

" Hyperion hasn't split the comunity. a few tree hugger radicals from accross the country have done that. "

Stop the Insanity wrote on Apr 26, 2008 9:20 PM:

" Two wrongs never have made a right. Just because one thing pollutes the water doesn't justify adding something else to pollute it. One can acknowledge the need for more economic development in Union County and still oppose an oil refinery. I suspect this is all much ado about nothing anyway. These people don't have the money. "

GSJade wrote on Apr 26, 2008 5:24 PM:

" The American way: when your arguments are weak, resort to rumor, sarcasm, inuendo and character attack. Pollution generated by our farms has contributed to the Mississippi Delta's 50 mile deadzone due entirely to the nitrogen run-offs from farming. A modern refinery in SD might even produce less environmental impact on the water table than a large farm. The land that our ancestors got for free came at a terrible cost to the inhabitants before them, so we need to take a firmer stewardship role. Voting against Hyperion will quite possibly leave SD an economic wasteland, forcing our offspring to leave for greener pastures because their elders have failed to provide adequate opportunities for them here. We have moved here because our business requires us to travel constantly and has no specific center. Only that fact allowed us the opportunity to live here. The state will continue to cause hundreds of young, single college graduates to leave home because Dakotans selfishly guard our perception of what life should be, preventing virtually any economic opportunity to take hold. Except the credit card industry - which has inadvertently destroyed more families nationally then Hyperion on its worst day could ever affect. "