Oliktok Point DEW dump site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Stevens inserts $15,000-an-acre offer in military bill
NORTH SLOPE LAND: Adams siblings would receive $2.5 million, an amount
described as stunning.

By LIZ RUSKIN
Anchorage Daily News
July 4, 2004

U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens recently slipped $2.5 million into the annual
military spending bill to buy 160 acres on the North Slope that belong
to Jacob Adams, the president of the powerful Arctic Slope Regional
Corp., and two of his siblings.

A paragraph Stevens wrote into the Defense Department appropriation bill
in June said the Air Force will pay the Adams family in exchange for the
land and "in consideration of its unauthorized use and contamination." 

The $2.5 million cost comes to more than $15,000 per acre. That's a
stunning amount, said Brad Meiklejohn, who has negotiated the purchase
of dozens of remote parcels across the state as the Alaska
representative of The Conservation Fund.

...

for the entire article,
Stevens inserts $15,000-an-acre offer in military bill
NORTH SLOPE LAND: Adams siblings would receive $2.5 million, an amount
described as stunning.

By LIZ RUSKIN
Anchorage Daily News

(Published: July 4, 2004) 

U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens recently slipped $2.5 million into the annual
military spending bill to buy 160 acres on the North Slope that belong
to Jacob Adams, the president of the powerful Arctic Slope Regional
Corp., and two of his siblings.

A paragraph Stevens wrote into the Defense Department appropriation bill
in June said the Air Force will pay the Adams family in exchange for the
land and "in consideration of its unauthorized use and contamination." 

The $2.5 million cost comes to more than $15,000 per acre. That's a
stunning amount, said Brad Meiklejohn, who has negotiated the purchase
of dozens of remote parcels across the state as the Alaska
representative of The Conservation Fund.

...

for the entire article,
http://www.adn.com/front/story/5263027p-5199030c.html


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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