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...
The next Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting will be held: Thursday, September 14, 2023 9:00AM-5:00PM (1 hour of public testimony beginning at 9:15AM) ...
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (AKDOT&PF) has issued the Draft STIP 2024-27. STIP stands for State Transportation Improvement Plan. Per federal law, transportation improvement projects on the STIP should reflect priorities set by...
A number of authors have written publicly about the ore haul in recent days. In case you missed them, here they are: ♣ Dermot Cole’s Now we find out that 2 Fairbanks bridges can’t handle fully-loaded Kinross trucks in Reporting From Alaska ♣ David...
