The King Cove Road Project is Stuck in a Court Fight Between Alaska and Environmentalists
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Dispatch News] By Dermot Cole - April 13, 2015 -
While the Aleutians East Borough tries again to sell a mothballed hovercraft, a court fight continues over whether a one-lane road through about 10 miles of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge or a boat trip is the best way to connect the remote towns of King Cove and Cold Bay, 600 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The access battle has become one of the perennial flashpoints between the state and the federal government and it threatens to remain so. It's a clash of competing interests and priorities, marked by bitter denunciations of federal stubbornness on one hand and claims on the other that state officials have dismissed alternatives and ignored the $37.5 million spent by the federal government so far to solve this problem.
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