Alaska Mental Health Trust is trying to Drive Us Crazy Again!
The Alaska Mental Health Trust is offering 11,487 acres for lease in Chickaloon for coal exploration. Exploration drilling could begin as early as this winter.
What can coal mining do to Chickaloon?
- Destroy our clean air and plentiful water supply
- Change our trails into roads for 50 ton coal trucks
- Spoil our quality of life
- Decimate the area moose populations
- Shrink our property values
- Ruin the local businesses that depend on a clean and peaceful environment
What can you do?
Let the Alaska Mental Health Trust know what you think about the prospect of coal mining in Chickaloon! Write to them NOW (comments are due by November 7th by 2pm) and ask that they withdraw their decision to lease their land for coal mining. It is in their best interest to pursue sustainable land management practices. Mining coal to fund mental health programs is madness!
Send comments to the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office no later than
2 p.m., November 7, 2011.
Mail your written comments to:
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office
2600 Cordova Street, Suite 100
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
or
Email them to:
mhtlo@alaska.gov
Many residents have concerns about water, air and noise pollution, industrial mining traffic, habitat degradation, and the loss of the rural Alaskan lifestyle. It has been well documented what the coal mining industry has done to other communities throughout the United States, many have been destroyed or changed forever.
This is not just a local issue. The proposed lease is in the Mat Valley Moose Range. Coal mining could ruin important wildlife habitat, wetlands, hunting and recreation. Four major trails (King River, Permanente, Chickaloon-Knik-Nelchina, and Chickaloon River) could potentially be used as access roads. New roads may also be built into the backcountry.
Join us in our fight to stop this coal project. Coal is our past, not our future.