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By Wayne Trottier at the dam at Park River. DanStensvold, Com- • General Fund ending balance - $87
Rep. District 19 mander, and many of the other veterans, ex- million
BISMARCK, N.D. --This report will pressed Concemthat some VietNamveterans • Foundation Aid Stabilization Fund -
spell out some of the legislation dealing were not getting medical help from the VA. $606 million
with Veteran affairs and Financial Reserves Some of this is because some or many Viet- • Strategic Investment and Improvements
for the State of North Dakota. Nam veterans do not trust our Government. Fund - $721 million
Veteran's commitments from the State of For those that do not know, many soldiers in • Property Tax Relief Fund - $657 million
North Dakota, this session: that conflict were told, the chemical, Agent Or- As you can see, the State of North Dako-
• $600,000 to continue Veteran's Bonus Pro- ange, used to defoliate the trees, grass and all ta, spent a lot of money, but we were able to
gram vegetation was a harmless chemical to hu- put money away for the future. Everyone
• An additional $110,000, for a total of about" marts. Then 25 years later, there comes all of agreed that our current state's income will not
$2.5 million, to enhance the North Dakota Na- these medical issues that the government had last forever. Please don't forget the Legacy
tional Guard Tuition Assistance Program. The said "not so".
Fund from the oil income, which could eas-
program covers tuition cost for Guard mem- Approximately 60,000 US soldiers lost their ily have $2+ BILLION in that fund shortly.
bers to participate in North Dakota post-sec- lives in VietNam, and since that time over The 63rd Legislation Session worked really
ondary education programs. 400,000 veterans have died from Agent Or-
, $130,00 to •coordinate the ND National ange. Together, with Commander Dan hard at keeping check on continuous funding
Guard Military Funeral Honors program. Stensvold and other ND VietNam veterans, we and devoting more funding for one time fund-
. $83,000 for maintenance at the North wrote the bill. I was prime sponsor, and along ing, such as infrastructure and new buildings.
Dakota Veteran's Cemetery. with their unforgettable testimonies, the full I said a few weeks ago, that I would try to
• $325,000 to assist veterans who are en- House and Senate passed the bill, granting summarize the session in 3 separate articles,
rolling in North Dakota's higher education in- these Veterans $50,000 to assist Agent Orange but many of you have asked to keep the
stiutions, victims. The VietNam veterans Assn will be columns short but do more of them, so I will
• $50,000 to purchase service dogs to as- accountable to the ND VA Office for all ex- have a few weeks to go yet, if you permit me.
sist veterans suffering from post-traumatic penditures. My thanks to all of you who sup- With that in mind, I would like to thank all of
stress disorder, ported me on HB 1405. the weekly papers for allowing us to give you
The last item is HB1405, the Agent Omnge NORTH DAKOTA'S RESERVE FOR thisinforrnation. We really do appreciate it.
bill. Last July, the North Dakota VietNam Vet- THE FUTURE: Editor's Note." Trottier is a Representative
eran's Assn invited me to their annual picnic • Budget Stabilization Fund -$584 million in the North Dakota House for District 19.
Obama Needs to Stop Playing Politics and Approve Keystone XL
By Chris Faulkner
DALLAS -- The White
House is running out of reasons to
reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
,, This administration's very own
State Department recently re-
leased its much-anticipated report
on the potential environmental ef-
fects of the project, which would
construct a 1,179-mile extension
of the existing Keystone pipeline
system connecting Canadian oil
sands ,.and U,S. oil shale de-
posits to American refineries on
the Gulf Coast.'
The State Department's find-
ings are unequivocal: Keystone
XL is perfectly safe. There's little
evidence the pipeline would do
damage to the aquifers, eco-sys-
bogeyman into national environ-
mental policy, Obama opens the
door to endless lawsuits by the
green lobby. Thus, the White
House can delay the project with-
out overtly ordering a halt.
Enough with the delays. The
White House has no good reasons
for rejecting the pipeline any
longer. Keystone XL should be
approved without delay.
With national unemployment
still stuck at 7.7 percent, Ameri-
can workers are desperate for all
the jobs expected to be generated
by the construction, operation, and
maintenance of Keystone. A sep-
arate report from the State De-
partment estimates that building
the Keystone pipeline extension
tems, and animal populations would directly create 42,000job.s,
resting-algng its.'pla~aned, pathway. :, .~. inehading.nearly 4,000 ne~ pos1-
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ulators need more evidence about That total doesn't include the
its environmental effects. Well, countless other jobs the project
here's the evidence. Case closed, would stimulate in support in-
right? dustries, like hospitality and food
Wrong. The White House is services. Keystone would be a
still refusing to reverse course, jobs boom, creating steady, well-
And officials are now pushing for paid positions up and down the
ffbroader directive to all federal pipeline's pathway.
envir0flmefiN1 re~lators to con- These clear economic gains are
sider the global warming impli- a big reason there's already broad
catiofis0fany new energy project bipartisan support for completing
before approving them. That's a Keystone. Many top Democrats
move guaranteed to further drag have explicitly urged the White
out the Keystone approval House to give its approval, in-
process• cluding Senators Jon Tester and
By bringing the climate change Held, Heitkamp, and House rep-
-!
resentatives Henry Cuellar, development is proof positive
Charles Gonzalez, A1 Green, Keystone will wreak havoc on the
Gene Green, Ruben Hinojosa, environment. Never mind that
and Sheila Jackson Lee. the pipeline that cracked is over
Several major labor unions sixty years old and substantially
have also expressed frustration less technologically sophisticated
with the White House's foot-
dragging, including the AFL- than the Keystone pipeline.
CIO and the Laborers' Intema- The real irony of the anti-Key-
tional Union of North America. stone crusaders' cause is that if
Most importantly, there's a they are actually successful at
growing national consensus that blocking American construction
Capitol Hill needs to be priori- of the project, Canada will simlSly
tizing job growth, reroute the planned pipeline to the
On the other side of the Key- Pacific coast for export to China.
stone issue, of course, are radical, The oil underneath Canadian
reactionary green groups. No Soil will be sold and refined for ca-
amount of evidence will ever ergy under any scenario -- the eco-
persuade them that their hysteri- nomic gains for our neighbors to
cal claims about the project's en- the North are just too great. The
vg?~iit~nv~~ ~ngaCtoari~tct~alfT~lgrt 0nly question is if the United
• ry rep ~
findin Ke- stone XL safe their States will economically benefit
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Indeed, in response to the new 7:much less environmentally friend-
State Department report, a Coal,- ~" ly than sending it down a pipeline
tion of marquee green groups to the Gulf.
signed a joint missive to Secretary The case against Keystone XL
Kerry urging him to further delay : has collapsed. The White House
any decision on Keystone. Among !!needs to approve this pipeline as
the august signatories were Green-
peace, Ralph Nader brainchild
Public Citizen, and Friends of the
Earth.
Green groups have even
latched onto the recent news that
an aging ExxonMobil pipeline
carrying diluted bitumen from
Canada's oil sands recently rup-
tured in Arkansas. They say this
• :;soon as possible. Doing so would
generate tens of thousands of
desperately needed jobs right
here in the United States, while
also putting us on the pathway to
long-term energy security.
Editor's Note: Faulkner is the
CEO of Breitling Energy Com-
panies in Dallas, Texas.
FARGO, N.D,- The North
Dakota State University Extension
Service is launching a series of
workshops to help communities
get involved in the local foods
movement.
The first workshop, Building
Capacity for Local/Regional Food
and Understanding the Industry,
will be held Aug. 13 at FARRMS
in Medina.
Interest in eating locally pro-
duced food continues to grow
among consumers, restaurants,
schools and grocers. The reasons
vary, but health, safety, freshness
and knowing where one's food
comes from are four key drivers.
"The interest in eating local is
behind the NDSU Extension effort
to train local people to support op-
portunities to grow foods here,"
says Abby Gold, Extension nutri-
tion and wellness specialist. "Af-
ter the training, program partici-
pants will develop projects that
help their communities explore
strategies to increase local food
availability."
From 2007 through 2010, local
ported agriculture (also known
as CSAs) and food cooperatives,
also are becoming available.
In a 2011 NDSU symposium
that examined scaling up local
foods, participants acknowledged
that training to help expand this ef-
fort, especially in local areas, was
needed.
"The training needs varied from
helping producers with food safe-
ty issues to helping consumers bet-
ter understand how local foods
support good nutrition," Gold
says.
Issues North Dakota faces in
meeting the demand for locally
produced food are the lack of
producers, transportation and ru-
ral retail outlets.
"Small farm specialty crop pro-
ducers account for less than 5
percent of our agricultural pro-
ducers," says Glenn Muske,
NDSU Extension's rural and
agribusiness enterprise develop-
ment specialist. "Meeting this
growing demand will mean help-
ing potential producers see this as
food sales increased from $1.2 bil- an opportunity and helping ensure
lion to $5 billion nationally, This " they can do it profitably."
trend appears to be continuing To register for the workshop,
because more, farmers markets
open each year and the number of
small farms (those less than 100
acres) is expanding•
North Dakota has gained more
than nine farmers markets in the
last two years. Plus, existing farm-
ers markets are offering more
products and adding new ven-
dors. New means of direct product
sales, such as community-sup-
visit http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/
smallbusiness. The registration
deadline is July 15.
The workshop is free of charge.
Participants will receive travel
stipends and a small grant to ini-
tiate a local foods program in
their communities.
For more information, contact
Muske at glenn.muske@ndsu.
edu or call (701) 328-9718.
a new
BISMARCK, N.D. -- The gram currently serves about 12,500
North Dakota Department of mothers and children, including
Health is working to educate par- 3,200 infants, each month. The
eats and other family members WIC Program provides healthy
who utilize the Special Supple- foods and nutrition information
mental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children and counseling to middle- and
(the: WI(3 :Program), thin) w new low-income pregnant, post partum,
. ohran&o£J.afam_fommla_w21Lbe__and .hreasffeeding-women,. infants,
us~,~::~.,,,,~-.,....;~,.r,..:,,~,~.~,, and.children.up to~age!:5: Program
WIC federal regulations re- participants receive monthly WIC
quire competitive bidding for in-
fant formula rebates. The funds re-
ceived from the rebates allow the
North Dakota WIC Program to
serve an additional 2,500 mothers
and children each month. The
Department of Health has signed
a contract with Mead Enfamil
AR and Enfamil Gentlease goes
into effect July 1, 2013. Partici-
pants win the WIC Program will
be given information about the
change when they go into their
WIC office the next time.
The North Dakota WIC Pro-
food checks for items such as
milk, juice, fresh fruit and veg-
etables, cereal eggs, peanut but-
ter, and infant formula. WIC fam-
ilies also receive screenings,
breastfeeding support, and refer-
rals to health and support servic-
es within their communities.
For additional information
about the WIC Program, to locate
the nearest WIC office, or to apply
for WIC Program benefits, please
visit www.ndhealth.gov/wic.-
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