Alaska is positively crying for money for schools, human services, road maintenance and infrastructure needs, yet the Legislature leaves millions of dollars on the table for every year that they fail to update the mining laws. Let’s put it into perspective. The...
Recently, Advocates for Safe Alaska Highways (ASAH) was contacted by the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks (CABT), a national advocacy group that promotes highway safety and sound transportation policies since 1995. Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, CABT has put out a...
As you may have heard in the news, the Committee for Safe Communities had to drop its lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Transportation due to running out of funds. The lawsuit has been ongoing since it was filed on October 19, 2023. The press release is here....
In FY2024, total Alaska State Revenue was approximately $15.5 billion dollars. Of that amount, mining activities brought in about $62 million, or roughly 0.4%. This percentage has remained less than one percent since FY2020. This is for all mining on lands owned by...
Several members of ASAH gave a presentation to the House Transportation Committee in Juneau on February 20, 2025, during Highway Safety Week. Our presentation followed one given by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) and begins at...
The Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) is in the early stages of updating and revising its 2005 Regional Comprehensive Plan (the Plan). The Plan is the road map the FNSB follows when making decisions regarding community growth and land use decisions, forming the...
ASAH will review the Kinney report in detail and make a formal comment. We remain seriously concerned about the safety of the traveling public, including our school children waiting for and riding on school buses, very old bridges, lack of effective enforcement of...
Yesterday Contango Ore stock fell 21% after the company issued a press release stating gold production costs in 2025 will rise from $1,100 to $1,600 per ounce. At a hastily organized investor webinar, the CEO and CFO of Contango Ore blamed the newly imposed weight...
A fully loaded Black Gold Transport ore truck slid off the Richardson Highway and rolled into the ditch the morning of November 15, 2024, four miles south of Birch Lake (milepost 301). No injuries were reported. The ore from both trailers was dumped. Traffic was held...
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) announced on October 31, 2024, that it will be enforcing weight limits (know as “load posting”) both of the bridges at MP 346 of the Richardson Highway. These bridges cross the...
