Everything sucks!!
More and more by the minute!
On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:17 PM, William Witt wrote:
> What's to worry? Yellowstone is such a big place, who would ever notice a gas pipeline crossing some remote corner. And really, what's all the fuss about a little hydropower dam at the downstream end of the Grand Canyon? And a molybdenum mine in Glacier? The glaciers are all melting anyway, right? These parks are so big, and remote, that most Americans never see them, and fewer still would ever notice a little economic development activity situated discretely here and there...
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> (Note: Sarcasm Alert!)
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> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What does this mean for protection of our national parks? Phyllis
> Energy and Natural Resources Committee approves Denali Park legislation
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> FAIRBANKS — A bill to allow a major natural gas pipeline cross the eastern end of Denali National Park and Preserve passed the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday.
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> The Denali Park Improvement Act, sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also would allow construction of a small hydroelectric dam near Wonder Lake. The dam would be built by Doyon, Limited, Interior Alaska’s regional nonprofit Native corporation, to provide power to the Kantishna Roadhouse.
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> The bill also would rename the Talkeetna ranger station for Walter Harper, who in 1913 became the first man to stand atop Denali.
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> Jim Stratton, National Parks Conservation Association director for Alaska, praised the legislation, calling it a “win-win-win” in a statement.
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