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Tony Flagg, president of United Grain Corp., the Mitsui subsidiary that's building the Bucyrus shuttle elevator, said the Bucyrus project is part of a $55 million investment by Mitsui to get into the front end of the wheat supply. It's also building shuttle elevators at Conrad and Culbertson, both in Montana, to complement one it already has near Pompey's Pillar, west of Billings, Mont.The distance from Japan to Bucyrus, a town of 26 people deep in the heart of southwestern North Dakota, is about to become very short.
A Japanese conglomerate, Mitsui, is building a shuttle elevator in this nearly abandoned outpost in Adams County to get down and local with one of its most important imports.
The elevator will be in service for the 2013 harvest. It will give locals a new direction and a third option for selling grain in the region. It will allow Mitsui — doing business as its subsidiary United Grain Corp. — to bypass the middleman and buy its own hard red spring wheat and other grains direct from the farm.
The Bucyrus elevator is Japan’s first entree into southwestern North Dakota’s wheat market, but not its first statewide. Another Japanese corporation, Marubeni...
The following opinion piece was written by John Mohlis, executive secretary of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council; Robert Westerman from IBEW Local Union 932; Herb Krohn, Washington state legislative director of the United Transportation Union; and Mike Elliott, chairman of the Washington state legislative board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
Right now, we have a choice: Expand our Northwest export economy and grow employment and our tax revenue base, or watch new jobs and revenues go elsewhere. Several private companies are proposing to build and upgrade shipping terminals in Washington and Oregon for exporting coal from the Powder River basin of Montana and Wyoming.
These proposals will provide a meaningful boost to our regional economy and will help create and protect hundreds of good-paying union jobs in construction, transportation and manufacturing.
Not one ton more of coal will be used globally because of U.S. exports, and there will be no net gain in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of these projects. The question is whether the United States benefits or the benefits go elsewhere. If these countries...
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