Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Focal point of Alaskans' frustrations has been the San Francisco-based Sierra Club, which is the state's most successful conservation group. Although the club was not a party to the suit that has held up construction of the pipeline for four years, its aggressive attitude and legal success in southeastern Alaska have caused it, according to Sierra Staffer Jack Hession, "to catch the flak for everybody." Among its recent achievements: forcing logging companies to file environmental impact statements before they can cut trees in remote areas of the Tongass National Forest, delaying construction of several highways...
...disasters. In a state where unemployment averages 9.6% and the cost of living is 37% higher than in the rest of the U.S., less value is attached to saving virgin forests or bleak tundra. Newspapers bulge with oil company ads touting development, and cars from Juneau to Anchorage sport "Sierra Go Home" bumper stickers. Pro-industry coloring books, buttons and pamphlets appear in grocery stores and churches. "Our only mistake," admits Dave Murdey, 52, vice president of Ketchikan Pulp Company, "was not starting our propaganda war sooner. There's a place for Sierra Club-hell, we used to pour...
...Anti-Sierra sentiment is strongest along the North Slope, where oil wells remain capped. "People down south worry more about the ice than they do about the people up here," complains Vic Vickery, 35, an assistant drilling superintendent for British Petroleum. "We can't even have a gun here to protect ourselves against bears. We had four grizzlies come in the other day and we had to chase 'em off with a fork lift...
...most part, leaders of the environment movement greet Train's appointment with guarded approval. Joseph Browder, director of the Environmental Policy Center, thinks Train "understands and is sensitive to the environmental values," which will be coming under attack. Brock Evans, the Sierra Club's Washington representative, "has high hopes." Train himself is emphatic about maintaining his independence. "As administrator I have the responsibility for making decisions on standards and regulations and I'm the one who's going to make the final decisions...
...have to pay 50% of it to the Government. Bailey threatens a lawsuit if the Government fails to honor his clients' request. But there is reason to wonder if the affair will ever go that far. "It sounds like a new version of the old treasure of the Sierra Madre story," said one Treasury official. "Every couple of years somebody claims to find that treasure. But the treasure never materializes...