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Who's side are these Alaskans on?
By Dave Harbour
Alaska Standard Contributor
Point Hope and environmental groups are foolishly challenging a Chukchi Sea outer continental shelf oil and gas exploration program in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week.
These activists are aligning themselves with the Obama Administration philosophy that Governor Sean Parnell properly criticized in his State of the State speech last night. He said,
"...the federal government's actions often seem at war with Alaskan interests,"
How right he was! But some coastal village leaders have adopted the legal strategy of some of the most aggressive opponents of Alaska's economy. Those rural leaders are misleading their people into opposing the very industry that sustains their culture. Without oil and gas activity, how can the State afford to support rural schools, power cost equalization, or provide the various social service jobs in the villages?
If coastal leaders who are marching with Outside environmental activists want to return their citizens to a pre-pipeline culture, that is within their power. But if they do, they should not expect to continue receiving
all of the blessings of an oil and gas supported civilization that enables them to sustain a subsistence lifestyle in relative comfort.
The Legislature should take a long hard look at this situation. Without the prospect of an OCS future, the economic outlook for the entire state is at risk. The enlightened self interest of the Bush Caucus along with House and Senate Majority and Minority caucuses should cause those leaders to carefully consider their options when faced with thisreality: our children's generation may well be inheriting an economy which has been mortally wounded by a small band of well-intended northern coastal leaders possessed by extraordinarily poor judgment.
-Dave Harbour is the publisher of www.northerngaspipelines.
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The Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to run ads for candidates goes part way in giving business equal footing with environmentalists, special interests and other non profits who have been allowed to support their candidates and subvert developement with impunity. It has been intersting that non-profits can throw thousands of hours behind thier candidates while corporations could not spend money to buy equal time.
Conventional wisdom advises not to be limping along on two different opinions. For those in ruralAlaska
However, if you want to join us in Realityville here in the 21st century you might want to take a look at:
You are living in a socialistic dream world now that someday will end because welfare checks and subsidies cannot go on forever. If you really do have "Native Pride", you would want to be self-sustaining anyway. So, if you want to keep living in the village either go back to the way things were before the evil white man came or get real about what it will take for you to support yourself.
Let's shut down the airports, fuel barges, outboard motors, snowmachines , four wheelers and anything else with a thread to petroleum products and leave these poor souls alone to live a subsistence lifestyle! Oh, and lets take away the big catepillar front end loaders that we see all the time on Channel 2 pulling the whales onshore. They burn diesel fuel and will no longer be needed. I notice now C2 cuts these out of the picture (the front end loaders) when they show the whale follies on TV. All you see are the ropes to nowhere.
What a joke. Thanks Dave for having the cajones to point out the irony!
That's right in my opinion these groups are communist. We ,as a state, need to lobby to regulate these groups just as the banks, oil, mining, are regulated. These groups lay back and watch these companies spend their shareholders money, someones retirement, get approval from the controlling agency, prepare for the work, then get sued. That is BS!!! I understand the need to sue, but this is abuse. The environmental industry needs to be regulated to fit the scope of a project, not create an end run around the system. If they play, they need to pay. Also I am disgusted with the way these environmental groups don't give a damn about the poverty, abuse, lack of economy of the native people. They just USE these people for their own agenda, with NO plan to help the people they USE. All the people of Pt Hope will see is the backs of their environmental adversaries as they get on the plane.Regulate these communist to be American. We need our resources.