A locally-organized community meeting at the Delta Community Center drew a good crowd on Thursday, July 13, 2023 to hear speakers talk about the Kinross Tetlin to Ft. Knox gold ore haul’s impact on Delta Junction and other communities along the route. Over 70...
Two new pieces out this week by Dermot Cole. The first discusses the results of a recent feasibility study done by Contango consultant John Sims. The second reviews the most recent assessment of the Manh Choh mine at Tetlin. Both are worth your time. Mine trucking...
A number of concerned Haines residents recently organized as the ad hoc group Safe Haines Highways (SHH). The principal members of SHH live along the Alaska Highway System truck corridor that runs from the Dalton Cache U.S. Border Station to the Haines municipal dock...
To the editor: Interior Senators and Representatives, A disastrous plan is moving forward unchallenged to use our state highways for hauling gold ore from Tetlin to the processing mill at Fort Knox north of Fairbanks in spite of a study that demonstrated the strong...
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was a response to a growing awareness of environmental degradation in the U.S. in the form of polluted waterways, diminished air quality in cities, acid rain from coal-fired power plants, and more. NEPA provided a...
Dot Lake Village President Tracy Charles-Smith has written a position statement explaining the Village’s opposition to mining man-camps. There will be a man-camp in Tok (the old Westmark hotel) to house mining personnel at Manh Choh and possibly a second one...
