Steve Perrins in an ad put out by the Alaska Range Alliance speaking out against the proposed Susitna Road, June 2022.
Most recently, they came from Dana Pruhs, the chair of the board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, in anpublished in this newspaper, when he threw out misleading rhetoric to make this project and AIDEA’s “investment” decisions look good. You buy a cabin in the West Susitna so you can hunt and fish in a wild part of Alaska. If Pruhs didn’t care whether or not traffic was roaring right past him, he would have bought in Willow.What makes all this even more ridiculous is that AIDEA has a proven track record of losing Alaska taxpayers’ money. A “clean” coal-fired power plant? What an absolute joke. AIDEA spent $150 million on it, then shuttered it, then sold it at an enormous loss. They lost money on the Mustang project.
If I need a new power plant or more horses, I don’t get to have the state go get them for me. I pay for them. Maybe the biggest mistruth in that piece was Pruhs saying investors are going to pay for this industrial road. These are some of the richest gold mining companies in the world. If there were a way for a profitable business operation to happen, they’d be paying for it. AIDEA wouldn’t have already appropriated millions of dollars of Alaska money to it.
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