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| Biden admin buckles to environmental groups, makes sudden reversal on key land decision | |
| 2023-03-16 | |
[FoxNews] The decision will 'deprive Alaskans of the life-saving services the road would provide access to,' Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says
The Department of the Interior (DOI) withdrew the land exchange — which had been finalized by former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in 2019 and aggressively defended in court by the Biden administration — and explained that it contained procedural flaws and wasn't consistent with agency policy. DOI Secretary Deb Haaland said the agency would initiate another environmental analysis of the proposal as part of President Biden’s conservation agenda. "The debate around approving the construction of a road to connect the people of King Cove to life-saving resources has created a false choice, seeded over many years, between valuing conservation and wildlife or upholding our commitments to Indigenous communities," Haaland said in a statement. "I reject that binary choice." "I am a lifelong conservationist, and I believe deeply in the need to protect our lands and waters and honor our obligations to Tribal Nations," she added. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 stopping the construction of a 20 foot wide gravel road. Because of the environment. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-03-16 16:59 |
| #5 Looking at from a different angle. The Fed's own 222,666,580 ac of the 365,481,600 ac that make up Alaska in short the DC Swamp owns 60.9% of Alaska now. Given that much land, the DC SWAMP could settle a good hunk of the national debt, selling off Federally UNUSED Lands and % royalty based drilling rights. Suggestions: NOT allowing Elite / super rich mass purchasers, NOT allowing Non-citizens or political family relations to purchase. Limiting purchases to 100 ac per US family. Plus restricted to related family only sales for 20 years. The Fed is big owners of the following states |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-03-16 16:50 |
| #4 Lots of "indigenous" are happy to stay on the rez, long as the checks show up. It's pathetic that they don't mind being used that way. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-16 16:11 |
| #3 The real message is to the 'native' populations, "Stay on your rez and do what we tell you or else." |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-03-16 14:50 |
| #2 "the need to protect our lands and waters and honor our obligations to Tribal Nations," she added." I had been under the impression that Alaska was actually fairly large in size and could accommodate some construction and still remain largely in its state of nature? |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-03-16 13:53 |
| #1 What does Murkowski have to say about the policy change? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-16 11:37 |