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Billions to build the port and the pipeline and the roads and all of that you say, well, we need to expand. there s a lot of gold and copper and silver and mel ibdium in the ground out there. and we do not have any current plans to expand what we re talking about with this permit. but it wouldn t surprise me if somebody, us or someone else, doesn t do that at some point in the future. they re basically talking about putting a 175-mile gash across this pristine habitat. reporter: plans and promises aside, drew sees this first piece of survey equipment as the beginning of the end of this wilderness as we know it. what do you say to the argument that this means jobs, this means an infusion into the alaskan economy? i say there are already jobs here. you look at the town of homer in the bear viewing industry, there are millions of dollars being made here already in its current wilderness state. you look at the other side of the mountain. there are tens of millions of dollars alre ....
Permit. and then once you spend billions to build the port and the pipeline and the roads and all of that, you say, well, we need to expand. there s a lot of gold and copper and silver in the ground out there. and we do not have any current plans to expand beyond what we re talking about with this permit. but it wouldn t be surprise me if somebody, us or someone else, doesn t do that in the future. they re basically talking about putting 175-mile gash across this pristine habitat. reporter: plans and promises aside, drew sees this first piece of survey equipment as the beginning of the end of this wilderness as we know it. what do you say to the argument that this means jobs, this means an infusion into the alaskan economy? i say there are already jobs here. you look at the town of homer and the bear viewing industry, there are millions of dollars being made here already in its current wilderness state. look at the other side of the mountain. there are tens of millions of dolla ....