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Resource Development Council for Alaska, Inc This edition sponsored by: Across the nation, property owners are battling to protect their rights. In South Carolina: David Lucas paid $900,000 for two beach front lots. He planned to build private homes, but the state quickly passed an ordinance outlawing all development on the beaches. Mr. Lucas sued. He had to take his property rights battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that, if he could not make reasonable use of his land, he must be reimbursed. In Oregon: A couple purchased 40 acres of scrub forest after being assured by the county planning commission that they could build their retirement home on the land. Then the county changed its zoning laws, and told them they could not build because the construction did not relate to development of forest resources. Their property rights case now is in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In California: A couple purchased a beach front lot, where they wanted to build a APC mill to close September 30, hundreds to lose jobs two-story home similar to others nearby. The California Coastal Commission said Major changes in a federal logging acontributing factor in the mill's upcom- they could build-ifthey gave the state one-third of their property for a park. The contract, coupled the removal of two- ing closure, the worst damage has come couple sued. They also had to go the judicial distance. The U.S. Supreme Court thirds of the commercial forest in the from changes in the company's 50-year called the Coastal Commission's demand "extortion." Tongass National Forest from logging, logging contract that have made a diffi- rias forced the Alaska Pulp Corporation cult situation "completely unworkable," to announce the indefinite suspension said Frank Roppel, Alaska Pulp execu- And in Alaska: A gold miner whose claims are within Denali National Park was of its Sitka pulp mill operations. tive vice president. He said the com- Changes to timber Four-hundred employees with an pany will seek relief through a recently- working a placer deposit according to sound environmental principles. The contract prompts suit National Park Service shut him down, telling him he couldn't mine if his operation annual payroll of $1 8.9 million will lose filed lawsuit against the Forest Service their jobs when the mill closes Septem- and will explore additional uses for the caused any surface disturbance. His property rights case now is in Federal District ber 30. A permanent closure would Sitka mill site. After months attempting to re- Court. ultimately lead to the loss of hundreds The company's contract with the solve issues out of court with the of additional jobs and an indirect payroll Forest Service allowed forthe purchase U.S. Forest Service, Alaska Pulp of $1 1.3 million. of 5 billion board feet of timber through Corporation has filed suit in U.S. While a weak world pulp market is the year 201 1. But since the contract District Court in Juneau challenging As environmental regulations proliferate at all levels of government, prop- was signed in 1957, Congress has modifications to the company's 50- erty rights are b,eing compromised with increasing frequency. Preservation moved to set aside most of the commer- year timber purchase contract. of cherished property rights requires constant vigilance and involvement by cia1 forest from logging. APC claims the Forest Service's In the 1980s, amajor lobbying effort administration of the Tongass Tim- advocacy groups. And action by us, the individual property owners. by state and national environmental ber Reform Act of 1990 has improp- groups led to the passage of the 1990 erly changed provisions of the Tongass Reform Act, which removed company's timber agreement and even more prime areas from the timber has made it much costlier to do base and led to major changes in the business. harvest contract. Those changes sub- "We had hoped and tried to stantially increased the price of wood resolve differences through nego- and decreased the overall quantity and tiations and discussions," said Frank quality of logs available to the company. Roppel, ARC Executive Vice Presi- Moreover, operating costs at the dent. "But the Forest Service re- Resource Development Council mill have increased over the years with Bulk Rate mained unyielding in its position, 121 W. Fireweed, Suite 250 stricter permit requirements.Since 1968, U.S. Postage and, unfortunately, we had no re- Anchorage, AK 99503 the company has spent over $1 00 mil- The APC mill accounts for a quarter of course other than legal action." ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Anchorage, AK Sitka's waterrevenues and20percent of its lion installing air and water pollution According to Roppel, the Act Permit No. 377 property tax base. controls. It now spends over $1 2 million (Continued to page 4) (Continued to page 4) w. In keeping with RDC's tourism and agriculture interests, RDC Executive British Columbia's decision to cre- mine would range from $1 10 million to fly into a public relations rage and spread Director Becky Gay holds "Errnalee,"a Musk Ox calf at the Palmer farm. Gay works ate a 2.5 million-acre wilderness park $620 million. fear throughout the populationof apos- as a volunteer for the Musk Ox Development Corporation with Connie Oornittuk, on top of a world-class, $8.5 billion Windy Craggy became a lightening sible environmental apocalypse," farm manager, and had the added pleasure of helping nurse the baby calf back to copper and gold deposit in the remote rod for environmental activists, who even- Corcoran said. health this spring. wilderness of northern British Colum- tually attracted thesupport of Vice Presi- The Canadian decision has brought bia has left miners fuming mad and dent AI Gore. The Vice President praised relations between government and indus- environmentalists jumping for joy. British Columbia for setting aside the try to a new low. Miners claim policies are "We came to the conclusion that region as a park, which U.S. officials driving industry out of the province. the preservation of wilderness and the hope to merge with two national parks in Alaskan miners warn the Canadian proposed mining activities could not Alaska to create a 21 million-acre pro- action was not an isolated example of co-exist, said Premier Michael Harcourt tected wilderness, the world's largest. the mining industry being booted out. in announcing the creation of the mas- The area, about the size of Ireland, is They say similar policy decisions have sive wilderness park directly over the largely inaccessible to humans and become the norm throughout the U.S. Windy Craggy copper deposit north of would be off limits to all development. It In a recent front-page editorial, the Haines, Alaska. Harcourt was forced to is popular with river runners who pay Wall Street Journal detailed how the Wetlands Coalition (AWC) to spearhead the battle on wetlands make a political choice between envi- thousands of dollars to raft the mining industry is relocating to South policy and regulation. Federal wetlands policy represents yet ronmentalists and miners, who battled Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers. America. The number of U.S. and Ca- another attempt to retard Alaska's ability to develop not only for years over whether the area should Environmentalists claim Windy nadian mining companies operating in resources, but transportation corridors, airport and port sites, be preserved or a fraction used for the Craggy's demise is one of the greatest Latin America has more than doubled tourism facilities, and the most basic elements of infrastructure in development of the copper mine at conservation victories since the pas- over previous years while exploration rural and urban Alaska, especially water and sewer systems. Windy Craggy. sage of the Alaska Lands Act in 1980. spending in North America fell sharply. by With thanks to the Alaska Congressional delegation, the AWC The park's declaration kills the pro- However, newspapercolumnist Terence "The companies are leaving the Becky L. Gay was invited to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to testify before posed $550 million Windy Craggy Corcoran warned that the decision to U.S. with the blessing, if not open the White House Interagency Working Group on Federal Wetlands project. Claim holder Geddes Re- create the huge wilderness preserve is encouragement, of the Clinton admin- Policy chaired by Keith Laughlin of the Environmental Policy group 1 sources of Vancouver has said it will yet another example of "mail-order pro- istration and Congress, which are pro- for President Clinton. demand compensation of "several hun- fessional environmentalists seizing the posing even stiffer environmental regu- Warning: This month's Resource Review might be depress- Commissioner John Sandor, Nelson Angapak of Calista and dred million dollars" from the province public agenda on economic develop- lations and new royalties on metals on ing to people concerned about the future of resource development Ispoke to the group on issues ranging from community needs, rural - many times what the province is ment." public lands," the Journal said. , in Alaska. sanitation considerations, regulations, coastal zone management, expected to offer. Geddes has spent Today, no government dares lift a The environmentalists' Windy The cumulative impacts of massive federal actions on the federal conservation units, demographics, native lands, as well as some $50 million on exploration and finger in favor of a new mine or resource Craggy victory will cost the region 2,500 economic health of Alaska are beginning to rear their ugly heads. specific wetland issues such as strict mitigation sequencing, abun- says the after-tax value of its proposed project lest one of these interest groups jobs.
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