Posted on 04/16/2014 6:31:16 PM PDT by george76
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell announced Monday that the state will sue the Obama administration to allow construction of a 10-mile road to give residents of a remote fishing village access to emergency medical flights at an all-weather airport.
Residents of King Cove, Alaska, were outraged in December when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell nixed a plan for a land swap that would have allowed the building of an unpaved road between the small town and the airport at Cold Bay.
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Since Ms. Jewell rejected the land swap, which would have given the refuge 43,093 acres of state land and 13,300 acres of private land in exchange for 206 acres of federal land, King Cove has required eight emergency medical flights to Cold Bay, including five conducted by Coast Guard medevac.
Mr. Parnell said the lawsuit would be based on the Mining Act of 1866, which allows states to assert a right of way based on historic use. States must give 180 days’ notice before filing such a lawsuit, according to the governor’s press release.
Last month, a visibly agitated Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, criticized Ms. Jewell for her decision and vowed to fight it at the Interior Department appropriations hearing, giving a nod to the late Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican.
“When Ted was really agitated and really going to let nothing stand in his way, he would wear his [Incredible] Hulk tie,” she said. “Today, I have a Hulk scarf on. And I don’t typically engage in much drama.”
Nineteen Alaskans have died attempting to fly out of King Cove, whose airstrip is frequently closed because of treacherous wind sheer.
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Another story that will be ignored by the MSM, but if a mean old Republican did it, we’d see it on ABC/CBS/NBC for sure.
Just build the road and tell the feds to pound sand.
Alaska has few roads - most of the vast interior is unpopulated. Fairbanks is the only major city of any size south of the Alaska Range.
Maybe it’s time for the feds to get out of the landlords business!!!
:snip:Nineteen Alaskans have died attempting to fly out of King Cove, whose airstrip is frequently closed because of treacherous wind sheer.
grass.
There is so much fodder building against quack science and those who enforce it, this election cycle should be a doozie.
Like they can’t grow eelgrass anywhere else?
They need to be pushed out.
Let’s make sure the CongressCritters and their staffers get the same quality access to care as the least among us.
Or is it indeed possible that some animals are more equal than others.
Just spent four days over an extended weekend in the Ballston area of Arlington, in northern VA. My, my! The trickle-down of my/our tax dollars is certainly supporting a robust economy in THAT locale! Animals of opulent degrees of equality as far as the eye could see.
All Progressives value “grass” over humans ... “grass” you can smoke, humans (especially those of a lesser class than the ruling Progressive class) can only be ignored until they can be dispensed with.
True that! Bud the road and tell the Feds to pack sand!
Here in Washington State at the Oso Landslide, the locals started building a road around the toe of it (up on an opposite hillside) right away. A mile or two of gravel road in four or five days if I recall. Not sure who’s property it was, or if anyone really cared at the time.
Bump
They should just plow and grade the road under Governors proclamation.
“Maybe it’s time for the feds to get out of the landlords business!!!”
Yes, where are the Alaskan Bundys?
Sounds like it’s time for the government to send 200-300 armed Farce Enlawment Orifices to make sure the peasants don’t get uppity, and build a road on the sly on The King’s Land.
Somebody's just ASKING for million dollar fines, and a few hundred BLM Brave Companion gunthugs to squeeze it out of them...
If all the eelgrass disappeared tomorrow none of the enviros would even notice.
Someone should take a big bottle of Round-Up and dump it on that bed of eelgrass. Then the environmentalists won’t have to be responsible for any more people dying because they can’t get to the hospital in time.
Just build it. The land belongs to Alaska not Obama. It’s your state and the Feds have no constitutional authority to dictate to the state where or under what circumstances you can build a road to assist the citizens of your state.
If the feds interfere, then just show them the border and ask them to cross back over it. If that doesn’t work, then call out the militia.
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