Everyone recognizes there is environmental injustice that has been done.
We cannot continue with more of the same. Because more of the same is an injustice to these people and to Alaska Natives and people really a...
So let me ask on that, I think you have outlined the importance of making sure that you are consolidating the information, that everybody is...
This is the responsibility, this is an obligation of the Federal Government to basically clean up its own mess.
Thank you for making the job easier for those of our Federal partners.
I would hope that if there is any agreement up here, it is with a recognition that when our Native peoples, our indigenous peoples, are prov...
But it shouldn't be hard for the people who gave up 90 percent of their country for $60 billion or $30 billion.
we are seeing increased instances of breast cancer amongst Alaska Native women attributed to the PCBs from FUDS
This needs to be addressed. It just needs to be addressed.
I have suggested that is Interior, the Department of Interior, that would play a very key and a very important role in terms of a coordinati...
I would hope the Department of Interior and you as the new BLM State director would be willing to make that commitment.
Do you think that we appropriately or adequately fund the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program?
The responsibility, full stop, is the Federal Government, and the indigenous people, the Alaska Native people have an expectation that the F...
It seems to me that the directive to the BLM was to prepare a cleanup plan for each of the contaminated sites. So just transferring it to th...
We recognize that travel here is a little bit different than anywhere else in the Country.
We need to be able to act on it and we need to be able to act on it now.
We have already identified the responsible parties. We have done that. That is what we began to do in 1998.
if this was any other responsible party, they would be the ones on the hook for doing this.
