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3:37 A year ago, former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and other state leaders were gushing with enthusiasm over the Alaska to Alberta Railway’s plan to build a 1,600-mile railroad from northern Alberta to the eastern Interior of Alaska to transport raw materials like minerals or bitumen for export. A2A Vice Chair Mead Treadwell explains the project route in an April 2019 talk with the World Trade Center Anchorage. Credit Fyodor Soloview/InterBering.com “We’re hoping to begin formal permitting with the Environmental Impact Statement process sometime either late this year or early next,” Treadwell said in an interview last September. ....
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Wed, 05/12/2021 - 11:17am If you want to turn private life into political warfare, there’s a bill in the U.S. Senate just for you. It’s the Democrats’ 800-page election takeover, S. 1. Promoted as a voting and campaign reform measure, 300 pages of the bill actually contain new restrictions on your First Amendment rights to association and free speech. These provisions have been criticized by everyone from the ACLU to Mitch McConnell, but Democratic leaders refuse to budge. The bill has already passed the House of Representatives. S. 1 also seeks to nationalize election law in ways that won’t fit our unique state. I oversaw elections as Gov. Sean Parnell’s lieutenant governor. Alaska’s election rules reflect our vast land areas, diverse languages and cultures, and even the challenges of getting an ID card if you live in rural Alaska. Sadly, S. 1 will not allow for our uniqueness and diversity. It turns more power over elections to the federal government, and ....
DeSmog Oct 2, 2019 @ 09:21 While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country’s oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also known as bitumen, to the rest of the world. Several recent developments in the rail arena are setting up the tar sands industry to realize those plans in a major way. It’s official. 500,000 people came out into the streets of Montreal today to join the Global #ClimateStrike They’re part of the 6.6 million who took part all over the world. The momentum is on our side and we are not going anywhere. #FridaysForFuturepic.twitter.com/vfQfU3LqZn ....