By M.D. Kittle AUGUST 28, 2013
Lary Hill grew up in a crowded house surrounded by generations of family deep in the Alaska bush country. In Iliamna, some 180 air miles southwest of Anchorage, communities hunted and fished to survive.
Hill, 68 and an elder of the community of 120 residents, said his family had no idea they were poor until the federal government told them. "We always had enough food to eat and a warm place to live, with family all around. We had no understanding of what poor meant," he said. Then, through years of government-administered programs in which "being poor meant you could get free stuff," the destiny of the region's people seemed to be in the hands of bureaucrats. Hill knows all too well, though, what the government giveth, it can taketh away. ……
So, community members like Sue Anelon, who also works for Pebble, have a lot to say to the new EPA administrator. "We don't want this regulation [404(c)] enforced upon us," Anelon said. "We'll make that decision, not somebody else forcing it on us. We're going to tell her, this is not fair to our communities." ……."If she invokes the power of the Clean Water Act, that might rob our area of the chance to have an industry that would allow us to do more than survive, but thrive"…….
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