Over 50 Interior residents met with most of the Interior Delegation on October 31, 2023, to present the results of ASAH’s anti-ore haul petition, give updates on where the Corridor Study and state transportation plans are at, outline the known costs to the State...
The Committee for Safe Communities (CSC) filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOTPF) on October 19, 2023. The complaint seeks “injunctive relief and orders to compel the Defendant (DOTPF) to follow and enforce...
The Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) met for 4 hours on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Discussions centered on TAC motions to forward to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOTPF) and operational traffic impacts of adding ore truck traffic...
By Dermot Cole The state press release printed in the News-Miner that appears under the name of Transportation Commissioner Ryan Anderson is a well-massaged committee project that conceals far more than it reveals. Under Anderson, the transportation department has...
By Richard Tilly 1. No matter how anyone tries to paint the Kinross/Contango/Black Gold trucking plan as “legal”, this scheme is a private industrial ore haul. The scheme benefits solely one international mining conglomerate, its corporate shareholders and is...
Public opinion regarding the Kinross ore haul is overwhelmingly against the trucking plan. As of September 22, 2023, there have been at least 118 Letters to the Editor and 38 Community Perspectives in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Anchorage Daily News and the...
[The following editorial appeared in the Anchorage Daily News on September 16, 2023.] When Alaska spends its road money for a mining company’s benefit, is it a bridge too far? The Manh Choh mining prospect near Tetlin is one of those Alaska political issues that is an...
Advocates for Safe Alaska Highways (ASAH) is sponsoring The Candidates’ Report Card, a summary of where the local candidates running for office stand on the Kinross ore haul issue. The scorecard will run in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Sundays (or check it...