Council approves rail loop project
December 6, 2011 at 1:05 am in The Jamestown Sun
The Jamestown City Council gave approval to the Spiritwood Energy Park Association rail loop project during its meeting Monday.
The issue was removed from the consent agenda by Charlie Kourajian, councilman. It passed unanimously with members Ken Schulz and Ramone Gumke absent because of work commitments.
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And in the end, it still won’t make any difference, Jamestown will still continue to lose population. Nothing is going to change, the young people will continue to move out and the old people will continue to die off.
The Jamestown way: spend tax money and call it economic growth.
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Most young people leave rural areas because of the lack of jobs. the 30-40 jobs at a new ethanol plant will help. (this railroad loop is a requirement for the ethanol plant to be built.)
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The problem is, you now have a Catch 22 situation. The young people leave because there are no jobs and business places are very, very reluctant to create jobs in areas that have no growth.
Growth feeds growth and loses create loses. The die was cast for you a long time ago.
Besides, 30 jobs from the ethanol plant (assuming it’s ever built) will barely offset the 15 jobs lost when the Postal Service plant shut down last week.
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The catch 22 is that it is very tough for businesses to justify an investment when the unemployment rate is only 2.7%. The businesses have to invest and then subsequently rely on pulling in employees from outside the region, not relying on being able to recruit locally which is especially difficult for skilled labor. It is an uphill battle.
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but adding 30-40 jobs at an enthanol plant while losing 15 at the post office is better than just losing 15 at the post office.
I would bet the ethanol plant will be built this time. GRE has a $400 million investment sitting there that can’t be used til it has another industry there to use the waste heat. This is not Newman, who seemed to have soured on the whole ethanol industry, also closing his ethanol plant up by Grafton.
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