Obama’s Interior Secretary to Dying Eskimos: “I’ve Listened to Your Stories, Now I Have to

frontpagemag.com ^ | february 28, 2014 | daniel greenfield

[lowbridge]

In one of Alaska’s most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport.

King Cove has a clinic, but no hospital or doctor. Residents must fly 600 miles to Anchorage, via Cold Bay’s World War II airstrip, for most medical procedures including serious trauma cases and childbirth. Frequent gale-force winds and thick fog often delay or jeopardize medevac flights.

According to local Aleutian elders, 19 people have died since 1980 as a result of the impossible-to-navigate weather conditions during emergency evacuations.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday rejected a proposal for a one-lane gravel road linking the isolated community of King Cove with the all-weather airport in Cold Bay some 22 miles away.

During an August visit to Alaska, Jewell was told that building a road that connects King Cove and Cold Bay was vital. But in December, Jewell rejected the road saying it would jeopardize waterfowl in the refuge.

“She stood up in the gymnasium and told those kids, ‘I’ve listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals,” Democratic state Rep. Bob Herron told a local television station. “You could have heard a pin drop in that gymnasium.”

[Cen-Tejas]

....bullseye!

.......they have already locked everyone out of ANWR. Google Heimo in ANWR for the story. He lives there and has for 30 odd years. AND, his kids can live in his cabin but their kids CANNOT.

So, YES, basically, the Marxists/communists WANT EVERYBODY OUT of THEIR LAND!

[headstamp 2]

“She stood up in the gymnasium and told those kids, ‘I’ve listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals,” Democratic state Rep. Bob Herron told a local television station. “You could have heard a pin drop in that gymnasium.”

Liberals are psychopaths.

[exit82]

They should have stoned her right then and there.

[Ann Archy]

OMG! Sally Jewell is a MAN, baby!!!

[itsahoot]

There are just to many people polluting the Progressives world. When will we ever learn?

[lonevoice]

Because everywhere else roads have been built, the birds just come right up to the edge of the road and stop there, unable to proceed.

And so the Aleutian Eskimos must die. This evil witch just stood there and said that right to their faces.

[hattend]

It’s only a thousand votes and none of them are needed by Sally Jewell.

I have a friend who has to go to King Cove on a regular basis...she gets out of there by bribing boats to carry her to Cold Bay.

A stinking ONE LANE 15 mile long road is going to hurt waterfoul... BullSquat!

[hattend]

Too bad these proud members of the first nations didn’t just build the road themselves...period

The only way they would be caught is if some US Parkie happened to notice.

Less than 30 people live at the Cold Bay airport...they'll never tell.

[SunkenCiv]

> the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport.

Thanks lowbridge. DRILL THE ANWR!

[Fred Nerks]

Is that her husband's jacket she's wearing, or is she just happy to see her attractive colleague?

[Nifster]

pretty much what I was thinking