Another Reason Why We Don't Get Things Done In The U.S.

One way to get the economy jump started, especially in Southern Nevada, is to start an oil refinery. The refinery would produce thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent jobs.
But to get a refinery, you have to jump through thousands of hoops and you need the patience of a 5 saints.
In North Dakota, an Indian tribe is going to try an start up a refinery. They have trying since 2003 to get the project going. From the Minot Daily News: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved an essential permit for a proposed petroleum refinery on the Fort Berthold Reservation near Makoti, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., announced Thursday.
The document permits treated wastewater discharges, said Ryan Bernstein, deputy chief of staff and legal counsel for Hoeven. He said its official name is the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit.
The Three Affiliated Tribes have been working on the refinery project since 2003.
The tribes still may need additional smaller permits but this permit is key and has involved the most time to complete, Bernstein said. The permit involves the National Environmental Policy Act process.
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation Clean Fuels Refinery is expected to be one of the few oil refineries to be constructed in the United States in the last 30 years, and be capable of refining 15,000 barrels of oil per day, according to information from Hoeven's office.
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/557393/Refinery-project-gets-key-permit.html?nav=5010
The Tribe has been working 8 years to get this project going and they have not even started to bulldoze the land the refinery will sit on.
We are never going to recover from out depression as long as we have a government bureaucracy that makes it almost impossible to build plants and start businesses. And things are not going to get better with Obama in office. His administration is making it tougher for companies to build or start anything not green energy related.
So, congratulations to the Fort Berthold and the Indian tribes involved for getting this project this far and hopefully they will be able to start this project in the next couple of years.