Comments on: Alaska salmon threatened by coal

By: ssalaska

ssalaska — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:12:28 +0000

Reply to David…
If you don’t live in Alaska… SHUT UP…..and don’t say anything about Alaska… If you do you have the right to have an opinion. Alaskans do care about their environment. I work and play in Alaska. I am not looking for the next hand out. I am looking for the next JOB… So that I can support my family and continue to live in Alaska. I cherish Alaska and its beauty. But I also want to develop our resources responsibly. The “Greenies” never quite. If you all are so worried about our environment then you all should start in foreign countries. Like China… for one. Oh and take everything out of you life that has to do with HYDRO-CARBONS and then come back and talk to me about not developing anything in America ever again.. Take a flying leap in other words… I am tired of the Greenies wanting gas for there cars, gas to heat there homes, gas to keep the power on in their house, gas to get there groceries to the stores and to there homes. But when we want to responsible develop our resources….. They all say..NOT IN OUR BACK YARD>>>…..Just sayin

By: Sockeye Sam

Sockeye Sam — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:27:34 +0000

I find it amazing as a sportsman who has an interest in protecting our wildlife, that every opportunity to stop any mine or energy related endeavor is met with such disproportionate resistance. Why? Who’s funding all this negative advertising? No matter where you step in this state it’s a watershed, wildlife or fish habitat. We build our homes in the forests and on the river banks with pride, but God forbid we look for a way to pay for or heat or light or get to it. I drive the lower 48 in a motor home from one end of this country to the other annually. Other than the major metropolitan cities I drive past 8 thousand miles of open unpopulated land. (Forget the thousands of idle wind generators on windy days I drive past.) We have learned from the mistakes of the lower 48. I lived in the Marina at Long Beach Ca. for several years within only hundreds of feet away from several camouflaged oil and gas wells. When you watch CSI Miami, Dexter, NCIS etc. look closely. They’re filmed in and around the Long Beach Marinas, and I bet you didn’t see the oil wells. We have fewer roads in Alaska than Hawaii. This mine and Pebble will provide far more benefit than harm. The North Slope and offshore oil and gas will provide billions in jobs and revenue. What’s to discuss? The plight of the Polar Bear is greatly exaggerated. We have less than 10% of the known habitat. As I’ve witnessed we don’t have much effect on them at all. Russia and Canada have far greater area than Alaska does. Get out from behind your desk and drive around this country and you just might get the real picture rather than that painted by lower 48 tree, bear, and whale huggers.

By: david

david — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:50:27 +0000

Who cares. alaskans dont care about there state , they only want handouts to keep coming. Pebble or this mine, its all the same. F the fish and F the environment. No lessons learned from the lower 48. Hey maybe we should add this mine and Pebble to the superfund cleanup NOW so we can get more federal funds. I’m Republican and Conservative.

By: praetor01

praetor01 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:51:27 +0000

I’ve enjoyed your outdoor writing for decades, Mr. Sherwonit. But if you really want to do something for our fisheries, militate against the 60,000+ king salmon that are trawled up, killed and discarded as bycatch each year instead of railing against a resource development that affects mainly only one stream. BTW: in a related note, there is more tonnage of halibut discarded as bycatch each year as is allowed for the entire sport catch, charter and individual.