Posted on 07/23/2017 1:07:26 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
I was shocked by what I saw on CSPAN a few days ago. There was a session in the House composed of a small group of both Republicans and Democrats debating whether a small town in Alaska should get money for an eleven mile road to connect up to civilization.
The Alaskans were Republicans and the Democrats consisted of Niki Tsongas (Massachusetts), Grijalva (Arizona) and a couple more Democrats from other states. The Alaskans asked for the road so that people could get to an airport to access a hospital. Niki Tsongas said no because it would harm the environment and wildlife. Grijalva said no because the town had been given a hydroplane boat. The Alaskan said that the hydroplane had been given to the town by Bill Clinton it would break down and besides the people had not asked for a hydroplane but an eleven miles road. They have been trying to get this road built since the Clinton years twenty years ago!
I learned that 90% of Alaska was controlled by the Federal Government! People in Alaska have to beg and plead just to get a road from people like Tsongas and Grijalva who have the luxury of driving anywhere they want anytime they want.
The Democrats got their way and denied the money to the Alaskans. What was that about? Greed or spite because they lost or maybe some of both? Yet this is the party that is always praising themselves for being the most compassionate people of all.
I am running against Nikki Tosongas. She needs to go!
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Maybe the state should take some of its oil billions and build the road itself.
Did you back the ‘bridge to nowhere’? Do you fall for every sob story you see in the media? Do you keep your TV on the Lifetime network?
Too bad some crony capitalist didn’t get a big contract.
Read the post after yours. The reason is that the government owns the land, or least some of it, that the road would have to traverse. So you can see the government, in liberal hands, would have simply exacted their revenge on the Aleutian fishing village.
I didn’t back the bridge to nowhere. I don’t live in Alaska.
Good for you.
Google Earth shows a 4,100 runway(King Cove Airport), with a road approx. 4.1 miles North of town of King Cove.
What am I missing here?
Get your facts together.
Another question: Google earth shows appox. 20 air miles King Cove to Cold Bay. Wouldn’t it be considerably longer given the geography between the two towns? Not 11 miles!
February 28, 2014
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.”
Della Trumble, spokesperson for the Agdaagux Tribal Council and King Cove Corp., called Jewell’s decision “a slap in the face”
too busy to read article tonight - or ???
the gov't controls the land and is using 'for the animals' to refuse -
You DO realize that when it comes to people - especially REPUBLICAN people, animals come first with dems?
Flying over Alaska - anywhere from Juneau to Anchorage to Fairbanks (all three of them quite different cities with major universities) could be an experience of a lifetime. Just now, up on our hill over Fairbanks, the wind is gusting furiously and the birch trees are dancing in a frenetic ballet.
Apparently those hardy folks are at that remote outpost to process food for us all to eat. I like canned salmon...:^)
From wiki -
King Cove, 600 nautical miles (1,000 km) SW of Anchorage at the end of the Alaska Peninsula, is home to PeterPan Seafoods’ largest processing facility. King Crab, bairdi and opilio tanner crab, pollock, cod, salmon, halibut and black cod harvested in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska are processed throughout the year. The plant, with origins back to the early 1900s, has the largest salmon canning capacity of any plant in Alaska. All five species of salmon are abundant in the waters near King Cove.
Salmon remains a major part of the annual operation, but in recent years the plant has expanded and streamlined whitefish operations. The plant produces several product forms including pollock fillet block, shatterpack fillets, mince and surimi. Cod shatterpack fillets and salt cod are mainstays. At peak seasons, both winter and summer, nearly 500 employees man the operation. King Cove's economy depends almost completely on the year-round commercial fishing and seafood processing industries. The PeterPan Seafoods’ facility is one of the largest cannery operations under one roof in Alaska. 76 residents hold commercial fishing permits. Income is supplemented by subsistence activities.
Trump should order the Army Corps of Engineers to build the road and accomplish it within a certain short time frame in order to determine if their skills are being properly maintained.
Failure to achieve results leads to further projects until the time frames are met proving required national defense requirements are being met.
I bet if hikers beat a path between the two points, they’d eventually have to pave just to give someone the pork for doing it. Once the path is paved, they’ll turn it into a…toll road, probably.
Oh, wait! The angle the ALaskans need to use is that they will need a highway so that Army trucks can reach their town in the even of a North Korean nuclear attack! :-\
Sounds good to me.
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