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The team finally found enough evidence to arrest Cal's grandfather, farmer Jordan Stark, for the murder. She later told the team that Ana and she were in the police academy together. Later, local trooper Ana Herdez tried to take over the investigation but Chief Marquez told her to stand down. Mid-investigation, biker Bubba Wyatt came to pick up Cal's body, leading the team to discover that Cal was part of a bike gang. On Route 76 however, they came across the body of troubled teen Cal Stark impaled on a cactus. The road to nowhere is what it was 20 years ago: a fairy tale as unchanging as Peter Pan.īruce Babbitt was secretary of the Department of the Interior from 1993 to 2001.Chief Marquez instructed Frank and the player to go to Rhine Canyon to get a feel for the place. She says the road is among the reasons why she has been delaying and is now opposing the Senate’s confirmation of the president’s nominee to oversee national parks and wildlife refuges.Īnd if the history of this issue is any guide, Murkowski probably will attempt to override Jewell - and the results of exhaustive scientific review - by attaching a legislative rider to a bill mandating that the project be built at taxpayer expense.Īll this is justified, Murkowski argues, because the residents of King Cove “are not being treated fairly.” She is demanding that President Obama and Jewell reconsider the decision. Murkowski has called the rejection of the road “callous and coldhearted,” hinted at the need for “civil disobedience” and promised “to be a hell-raiser on this.” And they are irate that Jewell, after conducting a thorough scientific review of the project and gathering public input, rejected the road in December. Anyone who says otherwise, they argue, is putting Alaskan lives at risk. Murkowski and the proponents of the road are still pushing for it as if the 1998 deal never happened, insisting the road is needed for medical emergencies. Nonetheless, after a successful three-year record of medical transports, the borough assigned the hovercraft to a different community to provide ferry transportation services for seasonal workers at another seafood plant. The hovercraft performed medevacs so well that the borough’s mayor called it “a lifesaving machine” in 2008. Instead of constructing the proposed road - which would be impassable in severe weather - taxpayers invested $37.5 million to upgrade the health clinic at King Cove and purchase a state-of-the-art hovercraft for medical evacuations. taxpayers have already accommodated alternative solutions to King Cove’s concerns about medical emergencies, with the clear understanding that the road would therefore not be built. Moreover, in an agreement I helped negotiate with Sen.
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A local assemblyman acknowledged in 2010 that the road would help Peter Pan better transport “fresh product.” And the local borough has been clear about its ambition to ship “live crab directly from the Aleutians East Borough ‘hub’ port of Cold Bay to markets in China and other Asian countries.” Today, Peter Pan Seafoods, wholly owned by the Japanese company Maruha Capital Investments Inc., is the largest cannery in King Cove. They say the road is simply needed for emergency medical evacuations.īut despite pledges and promises to the contrary, the real purpose for building the road is the same as it ever was: moving fish and workers to and from King Cove’s canneries. They now claim they have no intention of hauling seafood over the road. The road’s proponents have changed their sales pitch over the last 20 years. And it is a new secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, who has rightly said no. Lisa Murkowski, the daughter of one of the idea’s original champions, who insists the road must be built. Time has passed, and a few things have changed, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle. The project would also set a dangerous precedent as the first new road ever authorized through a congressionally protected wilderness area, one of the most stunning estuaries on the planet.
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taxpayers at more than $75 million, or $79,113 per resident of King Cove. Based on federal and state documents, the Wilderness Society has estimated the total cost of the “road to nowhere” to U.S. My boss at the time, President Clinton, promised to veto the bill for a simple reason: It was a bad idea.
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The road would connect the salmon canneries in King Cove, population 948, with a larger airport in the neighboring town of Cold Bay to expand and speed shipping. Frank Murkowski and Ted Stevens wanted to build a 38-mile gravel road in their state, with 11 miles going through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Secretary of the Interior, Alaska’s Sens. Nearly two decades ago, while I was serving as U.S. It has been said that nothing dies harder than a bad idea.