Comments by Copper_River_Red
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Posted on June 14 at 9:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Everyone continues to blithely ignore the impending Tar Sands lawsuits that will more than likely be adjudicated in the World Court due to the international scope of this proposed project.
Blinded by perceived need (addicts of the worst variety) and always thinking greed ( what, you thought this was altruism for the benefit of Alaska?), Trans Canada and its true believing Alaska contingent remain complicit in a short-sighted effort to get a pipeline, any pipeline, going, going, gone.....
They plan to have noisemakers operating for hundreds of years to prevent migratory waterfowl from landing in an area the size of the state of Florida as they transit to and fro on their way to nesting or winter feeding grounds.
So, I ask, just where are they supposed to land while crossing the man-made wasteland?
The waste ponds are prolific, dearies, and they are already polluting Athabaska's people, fish and wildlife and the runoff is following the path of least resistance into the Arctic Ocean and other bodies of water.
www.tarsandswatch.org.
Just wait and Ducks Unlimited, World Wildlife Fund and every other stripe of environmental group will have this empty shell of a project tied up in lawyers for decades where an All Alaska Line would have been permitted and providing heat and export revenue for years from a pre-existing R.O.W. known as the TAPS corridor.
A fools errand is being perped on us and if you want a previous example just look to ANWR once organized resistance locked it up.
That was based on a specious premise, this one (Trans Can/Tar Sands) is not.
It is a monstrous source of pollution, bigger than the Exxon Valdez and we are merrily condoning it as if it is our right in order to expedite the State of Alaska's treasury to overflowing.
Humans: Vastly over-rating themselves as a species one more time.
Don't forgive them Lord, They know exactly what they do (as usual).
I respect you and will miss your presence in the Legislature Sen Wilken, but I think you missed the boat on this one.
Posted on May 29 at 6:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I am seeing a very disturbing pattern in lack of foresight and being behind the curve of events that continue to crash down on us like a storm on an eroding beach.
I had a lot of trust in this administration's moving forward faster than it appears capable of doing.
The AEA does not seem to be a hot bed of innovation we need in this crisis.
The state needs good, driven people to get us up and moving to solve our number one problem and they need to come out of the private sector.
Winter is coming and it will keep on coming.
Once again it is time to renew the Alaska Science and Technology grant program for this.
Posted on May 27 at 7:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Matt,
Shrug off the callous comments, you're just trying to do the right thing.Some of these people will just never get it and will always be ready to pounce on a perceived unfairness to themselves.
It's all about Manifest Destiny to them.
Even some of us not liberal at all old timers see through the crap.
Posted on May 26 at 1:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Mainly because ADF&G refused to get off their duffs and it took a NOAA scientist,Dr Brad Stevens in Kodiak to initiate the show.
I approached F&G in Homer about this 12 years ago and they flatly said it couldn't be done,yaaawwwwwwnnnn.
Recently a Kodiak crab fisherman sued the state for not undertaking it like they did for salmon and he was successful in that the AG's office said the state should appropriate funds to begin the program, including ocean ranching.
Posted on May 25 at 5:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Johnpauls,
China is just a statistic in terms of where dough will go and most importantly, how we get some of it back.
The oldest Chinese curse I know of states: May you live in interesting times.h
I can more tan relate to that notion.
Posted on May 25 at 4:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bottom line is, Trans Canada will be enforced by Blackwater, USA type entities, but only if we don't keep our own powder dry........
Posted on May 25 at 4:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Five-o five-o,
What you suggest is "culturally unusual",
How do we communicate with Nikolski let alone Livengood, let alone Juneau with guys like Ramras presuming to dictate what is or is not usual?
I'd rest my case but there remains a constituency feeding off Jay's enterprising self perception that words alone cannot define.
And this is about power to the people after all.
Sure will be nice to die and be rid of this latest incarnation/crop of economic philosopher/statesmen wannabe's.
Whores everywhere and they become the judges, what's wrong with this picture?
Posted on May 24 at 7:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
D.T.
As a Matter of fact I did see that lawyer/cow scenario and the cow said when dry, "So Moo Me!!"
Icicle and Trident?
Well with Ted the Fixer's help they were able to bring back the company store, might as well have been fish traps because they now have their Seattle pretty boys on the "Deadliest Snatch" hawking Russian crab via Wal Mart and calling it Alaskan.
Oh yeah, they got caught, didn't they?
Posted on May 24 at 11:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
DGuy,
As I've stated elsewhere we need to get on a war time footing on this and you are correct.
People have been bringing this impending crisis to the State for going on 3 years and more and have been ignored.
We are in a crisis and what a joke it is with all the money pouring into the state coffers.
Now we get to subsidize the oil companies further while depleting our state treasury, all because of glaring, disavowing, ignorance of the impending facts as presented.
We need this one year help but I'll be very, very disappointed and disgruntled if this Administration and Legislature do not exhibit some forward and creative thinking to solve this.
It's called effective leadership.
What we have right now is truly pathetic and we want to be treated as adults?
All these years of the D.C. delegation's freebies are coming home to roost and it is reflected in the nervous moo's of Alaska's cattle, er, people.
Alaska used to exist on "can do" integrity, we need to find our way back.
As it is right now,we can't even lead em
(our Fearless Leaders) to water, let alone make them drink....
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Posted on June 14 at 9:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Good things happening in here,the thing to remember is to include and encourage all regions of the state to get on the bandwagon otherwise the urban apathy to this real crisis will continue to strangle the rest of us.
A virtual "Bush Caucus" is needed to keep the kettle boiling, it cannot survive on a purely regional basis.
The Pribilofs, Nikolski, Metlakatla, Angoon, Sand Point, Port Lions, Naknek, Cordova, all must be encouraged to enter the fray for an internet onslaught of solidarity in order to get and hold their attention.
Too many legislators are walking around in la la land with their supposed next big boom project at hand...
Feet to the fire, feet to the fire. It's the only way.
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