Tom Tiffany: “The Nemadji Trail Project is a natural gas project to produce electricity to be able to provide that baseload power…”

“The Nemadji Trail Project is a natural gas project to produce electricity to be able to provide that baseload power, especially if we are going to go to more intermittent sources of power. Guess what the Biden EPA is doing? They have brought the hammer down on that project and said: We are going to make you go through this permitting process even longer, which has already been for 5 years. This is nearly a billion-dollar investment to provide reliable, affordable, clean electricity for people that live in the northland of the upper Midwest of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here, the Biden administration is trying to stop that project. That is what is happening. I say we can have both a clean environment and a growing economy. In fact, I would say if we don't have a growing economy, we will not have a clean environment. What funds those environmental projects? I saw it as a State legislator. What funds that is when we have a robust economy. I just think about when we had our business, Wilderness Cruises, my wife and I, for 20 years. When did we do well? We did well when the industrial economy was doing well, when the paper mills and the various industrial plants were doing well. When they were doing well, we were doing well. When they didn't, we didn't do well. It is not mutually exclusive, the environment and the economy. Having a healthy environment and a healthy economy go together. It is time to reform NEPA.…”