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A Brief Introduction
Join Me in The Fight for a Better Future For Our Community
We need to work hard to serve Alaskans and those who move to our state, and it is important to create an environment where we can work towards and achieve goals that will benefit everyone. Our population had been projected to decline, so how do we attract great people that will help and work together for and with us. We need to build good relationships, develop good projects where we create win-wins and care about creating flourishing local communities.
Issues We Support
Increasing Food Supply for Our Pets and People
It was interesting today, today we are working on completing our grant for waste to energy, recycling waste tires to home heating oil, and we are faced with another challenge that really affects Alaskans, food security as it requires too much to ship foods here and we do not grow enough of our own foods. When I was at Chena Hot Springs Resort, working as a SUSVY driver, I also worked in the restaurant for a while and really enjoyed it.
The only sad part was all of the delicious food we threw away. We had to feed the sled dogs back then and the local butcher had terrible meats one time that were rotten. I was there to walk the dogs after they delivered foul meat and it was terrible for the dogs. What Bernie did not realize was the amount of food he was throwing away each night at his resort restaurant, and while prime rib cannot be given to dogs, it is as simple as adding to your check when the server brings it out to the table, if the guest ordered steak, bacon or pork chops it can be given to the sled dog and with the Iditarod happening now, wouldn’t it be nice if the dogs got an upgrade from the wastes we already have on hand.
At our local restaurants we could designate: Dogs or Trash on the check
According to experts, “Mushers may give their dogs steak or other treats like bacon or pork chops.” How many Alaska restaurants could separate food wastes for dogs and also sled dogs?
Sustainable Food Production
Now for the people we hope we can use the waste heat from our three pyrolysis machines turning waste tires to home heating oil into heating for our greenhouse where we will grow vegetables and fruits and my cherry trees are coming along to provide additional delicious food. I am planning a special cherry, raspberry, blueberry and strawberry combination for this summer.
I also will have sweet peas at my home with a reading library filled with free books for kids. We must continue to work to establish our own farming and agriculture as there was a lot of interest recently as was expressed in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I support Alaska Grown.
Increasing Services for Trucking on the Dalton Highway and What Full Use of Our State Means
How many people would like full access to and use of our state? In California, we could actually travel everywhere in the state by road or rail for the most part. When I watched Ice Road Truckers on the Dalton Highway, I wanted to give them the gift of at least one extra truck stop and work towards improving the road, especially at Atigun Pass which could be worked on using Geophysics. Watch the video and it is significant the temperature differentials.
The Alaska Gas Pipeline Project
This most recent update on the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline that we will be following and working towards supporting this goal. They presented to the legislature following this video and we believe that Alaskan LNG directly benefits us. “We are going to see a cost reduction to the consumers of Alaska,” and we want to help bring this project to fruition.
Extending the Alaska Railroad to the Mining Districts
Open mining opportunities with a railroad
We’ve heard the old adage “opportunity knocks but once,” and I think I hear it knocking loud and clear. The Manh Choh Project could be great for Alaska, with good job opportunities and a significant lift to our state’s lagging economy. It would be an even greater opportunity if tied to a railroad link.
Current Challenges with Trucking
The current plan is to truck ore from Kinross Gold’s Manh Choh Project near Tetlin to the Kinross Fort Knox mill north of Fairbanks, driving 250 miles each way. The proposal has numerous roadblocks:
Primary Concerns:
- Safety: First and foremost safety concern
- High maintenance costs: Road maintenance over the proposed life of the mining operation
- Traffic volume: Ore concentrates would be carried by large trucks 90 to 120 feet long, with trucks moving in and out about every 7.5 minutes, 24 hours a day
Significant Issues:
- Traffic disruption and accidents
- Exposure to school traffic
- Impact on seasonal tourism
- Wildlife disruption
- Traffic destined for Delta and Tok
- Defense-related convoys to Fort Greely, our nation’s only missile defense site
Railroad as the Solution
The cost of maintaining an aging road with that much traffic would be extremely high. I am reminded of a dialogue decades ago between the Trans-Alaska Pipeline consortium and the state Department of Highways: If they had foreseen the exorbitant costs of maintaining the haul road, they would likely have built a railroad instead.