“asking the Alaska Legislature to re-appropriate $2 million the city received for Main Street. The council would instead like to use the money for a new harbor office building or to the New Skyline Drive Fire Station. Councilman Beau Burgess made this request to help property owners on Skyline bring down their insurance costs by building the fire station”

I have so had it with this City Council, pitchforks and torches anyone?

Let me get this straight, $19,000 passed for art projects….but the City Council did not immediately vote to reimburse these homeowners the pittance requested for sewage backing up into their homes due to a failure of the sewage treatment plant?

Buccaneer showed via map in public meetings that they intend to drill for natural gas behind everyone’s homes and property all the way to Greer.

A recent story in The Nation highlighted the problems with natural gas fracking, from nose bleeds, respiratory and liver probems, to livestock dropping dead, and this is within a three mile radius.

The article also pointed out this is usually done in very rural areas, where there are too few in the population to really fight back, with the help of local media that covers for corporations instead of informing and fighting for the local community that pays and provides for the newspaper and other local media funding.

As far as water rights, Sean Parnell intends to give corporations whatever they want as included in his new proposals, and that includes our water resources…

“Water Rights for Corporations, Not Alaskans: Governor Parnell’s proposal will give corporations unlimited access to significant quantities of water through “temporary” water use permits, and severely limit Alaskans’ right to challenge such permits.”

They will be given permits to take our water, and permits to put their undisclosed fracking fluids in the groundwater instead (undisclosed, thanks to Cheney whose company happens to be involved in fracking and nuclear waste disposal)

“Tonight’s guests have heard about residential drinking wells tainted by fracking fluids in Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Colorado. They’ve read about lingering rashes, nosebleeds and respiratory trauma in oil-patch communities, which are mostly rural, undeveloped, and lacking in political influence and economic prospects. The trout nibblers in the winery sympathize with the suffering of those communities. But their main concern tonight is a more insidious matter: the potential for drilling and fracking operations to contaminate our food. The early evidence from heavily fracked regions, especially from ranchers, is not reassuring.

Jacki Schilke and her sixty cattle live in the top left corner of North Dakota, a windswept, golden-hued landscape in the heart of the Bakken Shale. Schilke’s neighbors love her black Angus beef, but she’s no longer sharing or eating it—not since fracking began on thirty-two oil and gas wells within three miles of her 160-acre ranch and five of her cows dropped dead. Schilke herself is in poor health. A handsome 53-year-old with a faded blond ponytail and direct blue eyes, she often feels lightheaded when she ventures outside. She limps and has chronic pain in her lungs, as well as rashes that have lingered for a year. Once, a visit to the barn ended with respiratory distress and a trip to the emergency room. Schilke also has back pain linked with overworked kidneys, and on some mornings she urinates a stream of blood.”