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Posted on May 1 at 12:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
thanks for the laughs... some very good points. great thread!
Posted on May 1 at 11:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)
yeah, it looks a lot like tokenism to me. fairbanks is at the heart of the alaska native community. don't you think that they would be a little more in depth on this issue. i would hope so...
Posted on April 30 at 11:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
your analogy is very simplistic. im not sure that i see your point. do you mean because we exist and take up space, that we should be compared to an oil rig? it just doesnt make sense to compare the two. but i will try..
you also compare people who subsistence hunt with oil development. the difference is one is an indigenous person who lives with the land and has respect and intimate knowledge of that land. the other is a big ugly oil field that spews pollutants and causes great disruption with the natural environment and sucks all of that carbon that the earth has nicely tucked away over millions of years and spits it back out into the environment. and you say that that will just go away?
hmm... when does that happen? because the oil fields that i see in alaska dont seem to go away. they seem to keep growing and growing and growing...
Posted on April 30 at 7:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
dont get me wrong. im not one of those people who say if you dont like it then leave. i was saying mahsi' to imusuallyright. im not here to get into personal business. but that is quiet a concept isnt it?
Posted on April 30 at 7:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
a mass exodus out of alaska... imagine that
mahsi' choo
Posted on April 30 at 7:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
wow! is that supposed to be your argument? because the land is going to hell anyway?.. thanks for sharing.
i am a gwich'in athabaskan and i am not crying. i am specifically rejecting the destruction of our home. where does it sound like i am crying? if you want to counter my argument than use facts rather than try to just make fun of people.
there has never been this pie-in-the-sky oil rig that has never left its devastating mark to the environment. they can talk about the "footprint" all they want. that is the best language that they can come up with to describe the disturbance this will cause to the refuge. a footprint is something made by a living being that has a sole. that is something that an oil company does not have.
remember that this is a national refuge. it was specifically created to protect this land.
there has been too many examples.. over and over and over again of the effects of oil development. we have to learn from the people who have experienced this same process. the people of the north slope, they have all become sick with a variety of respiratory illness. they are completely surrounded by oil development. many of their people are being diagnosed with CANCER at such an alarming rate.. it cannot be ignored. would you wish that upon anyone?
that was a funny joke about the mosquitos. but would you please explain to me how us gwich'in are jealous? and also i would like to hear how this "attitude" has shown up in the other communities.. maybe we could help each other. thanks
Posted on April 30 at 12:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
oil development and pollution go hand in hand... there is no such thing as an environmentally safe way to drill.. keep ANWR closed. i'd rather not sacrifice ourselves...
the last frontier.. why do you think its called that?
i've seen the comments before.. go ahead with your stabs at my grammer... and i know some narrow minded person will throw in.. but the natives use snowmachines to hunt.. lol! does that mean we have to be completely assimilated into dominating culture?
i'm looking forward to good native food for many years!.. for my great grandchildren. say what you will..
Posted on April 30 at 12:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
sounds like most of this is assumptions...
how do you know that indigenous people want oil development? i am an indigenous person and i don't want it! neither does my whole family.. up and down the river and in the refuge... into the other side of the boarder.
have you heard of the gwich'in steering committee? they were formed specifically for this issue and appointed by our elders to protect our people and our way of life. we dont want it. we have travelled the world in support of this. walked the halls of dc. remember johnathan solomon, he dedicated his whole life to keep it closed to oil development. there are many, many others.. and more to come.. who will stand strong in our fight against opening ANWR and to keep living our way of life.
the price of oil is conditioning... read the article.. that is their main card
Posted on April 27 at 8:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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Posted on May 5 at 9:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i want to find family in japan. how would i go about that?
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