Comments by robir8
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Posted on February 13 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
First off the Tongass has not been raped or pillaged. I know I lived there. What it has been is turned from a Multiple use National Forest into a defacto National Park. Most of the more heavily logged islands were Native land; in other words fee simple private property managed as the owners saw fit. Pebble and Donlin and perhaps Doyons 40 mile offer the local residents of these areas a real chance at prosperity in Pebbles case for hundred years. If you look where it is and what it affects and understand that it is in the headwaters of only one small creek in a five river Bristol Bay system the impacts on salmon will be slight if any. I suggest the opposition to Pebble is less concern about fisheries and more opposition to mining in general. Hence endless law suits at Kennsington, Rock Creek and even Pogo ad nauseum. We will not survive as a State on tourist dollars and the oil is diminishing by the year.I payed income taxes in Alaska I remember before oil, sometimes I wonder if anyone else does.
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Posted on February 19 at 12:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The largest single producers of King (Chinook) salmon in the entire Yukon watershed are the Chena and Salcha rivers. They also have substantial Chum runs and all the other finny creatures native to this latidude. They were both dredged heavily, in the case of the Chena on it's main stem. This was before enviromental mitigation of any type. This mine will save Bristal Bay the way Prudhoe save this state jobs and revenue to the state for 100 years.Without mining, oil, timber ect we would not be here. This is a state not a park, we have parks but were are not a park. You people who were not here before oil, who have never paid state taxes, are living off the fat of the land and what others built and maybe, just maybe need to go back where you came from.
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