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Paulsen calls on Culver administration to quit killing Iowa jobs
Iowa House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen is called on Gov. Chet Culver to rein in Richard Leopold, his appointed director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and order him not to block an oil refinery that could creates jobs for Iowans.
Rep. Kraig Paulsen
Gov. Chet Culver
Paulsen, who represents northern and western Linn County, said Leopold’s objections could scuttle plans for a $10 billion Hyperion Energy Center being constructed in southeast South Dakota – across the border from northwest Iowa where hundreds of jobs were lost when the John Morrell meatpacking plant closed.
The plant is projected to create 10,000 construction jobs, 1,800 permanent jobs and 5,400 spin-off jobs all ranging from $20 to $30 dollars per hour, Paulsen said.
“Last year Gov. Culver let Leopold spend his time killing the Alliant plant proposal in Marshalltown, a proposal that would have created thousands of jobs,” Paulsen said. “This year he seems to have his sights set on killing several thousand more jobs for Iowa.
“I’m calling on the governor to order Leopold to stand down and stop preventing new jobs for Iowans,” he said.
Culver, however, said it’s Paulsen and Republicans who are blocking job creation by opposing his $875 million I-JOBS program that has created slightly more than 7,000 jobs.
“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 said.
It’s Leopold who is “helping us protect the environment and create jobs with dozens of water quality projects” through I-JOBS, Culver said.
The governor also said the Marshalltown power plant was approved by the state, but it was Alliant’s decision not to build. Alliant decided not to build due to “economic conditions, uncertainly regarding future regulatory and legislative treatment of environmental issues,” according to an Alliant spokesman.
The company said the rate restrictions imposed by the state “present a number of challenges in today’s financial climate, and we are disappointed that this decision seemingly does not take that reality into account,” Tom Aller, president of Alliant’s Interstate Power & Light utility, said at the time.
The Hyperion plant has received federal permits in accordance with the Clean Air Act as well as South Dakota’s own Department of Environment and Natural Resources. However, Leopold has thrown up roadblocks for the Hyperion plant in the form of letters and threats of lawsuits.
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Paulsen has a lot of nerve. The farmers in NW Iowa DO NOT want this refinery. It will pollute the land, water, & air. We don't need his kind of help. I was glad to see that Iowa's DNR stepped up to the plate. Now the Iowa EPA needs to get involved. Sounds like Paulsen has the best interests of the wrong people in mind. The job numbers he says it will create are also a joke. HYPE-rion has no money & Here's a suggestion Paulsen…..WIND ENERGY!!!! You & Steve King could power the whole state of Iowa with your hot air.
I'll try this again. I don't know if my last comment was rejected or what. Hopefully it doesn't show up twice. Here's the deal. Paulsen needs to get a clue. The job numbers quoted by him are hilarious. HYPE-rion never said those jobs would go to the locals did they? I believe they said that 85-90% would go to people they bring in. The people in NW Iowa that will have to live near this refinery DO NOT want it. I was happy to see the Iowa DNR step up to the plate on this & now we need the Iowa EPA to get involved also. This is some of the richest farmland in the U.S & a refinery would pollute our land ,air, & water. Paulsen could be costing Steve King a re-election(not that I would care). The farmers in this area are the people that keep King in office.
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Seems to me the “Liberals” try to protect everything except Iowans. Iowans have just as much right to life as the three toed toads that the DNR is trying to protect. Come on now this could have helped President Obama’s dismal job numbers by creating new, good paying, jobs. Let’s start putting people first.
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Isnt it "interesting" that the DNR chief has now gotten a "big job" with the Federal Government after he tried to "intimidate" the Company building the Oil Refinery???? Could this be payback from the Obama Administration for trying to kill more jobs??? Sure looks like it to me!! By the way for all you liberals, I obtained and read the "letter" to the Oil Refinery developers from the DNR Cheif and it called for more "stall tactics" just like he did for the plant in Marshaltown!! More Democrat Corruption?? The Chicago way.