North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

Opinion

Sorted by date  Results 1 - 25 of 175



 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Capitol dome in Washington DC with crack down middle over the American flag.

America's regulatory system is broken

As America gravitates toward an increasingly strong central government, the disparity of the regulatory system is becoming increasingly blatant. This is not the view of a few, it is the concern of... — Updated 3/11/2023 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion

Hard times call for a modest proposal

If you have paid any attention to the news lately, you are aware that the National Debt exceeds $30 trillion dollars and our Gross Domestic Product is a little over $26 trillion, so we are... — Updated 2/2/2023 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Fireworks over the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol Building.

We can all look forward to a bright 2023

At long last the new year is here! Behind us are the floods, blizzards, pandemics, elections, and the vast array of distractions that have clouded our skies. It is time to get down to business.... — Updated 1/18/2023 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Mining haul truck decked out for the holidays.

Life is full of little disappointments

It is always wise to count our blessings, especially halfway between election day and Christmas. I juxtapose those dates because the seasonal background noise is seamless. Election day blends into... — Updated 12/1/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Graphic of a fork in the road with signs pointing left, center, and right.

It's a very topsy-turvy world out there

Politically, the United States has been on a long slow drift to the left ever since Franklin Roosevelt threatened to expand the Supreme Court in 1937 in order to get his progressive agenda back on... — Updated 10/6/2022 Full story

 
 By J.P. Tangen    Opinion
A helicopter at a drill rig on Northern Dynasty’s Pebble project in Alaska.

There is something wrong, very wrong

Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency, citing section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act, announced its intention to prohibit the use of the Bristol Bay watershed for discharging dredged or fill... — Updated 6/30/2022

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
A Sen. Lisa Murkowski bracelet.

Sen. Murkowski puts shoulder to the wheel

Those of us who watch such things are well aware that Senator Murkowski has been the strong vocal lead in the Senate when it comes to sounding the alarm that the country is at substantial risk due... — Updated 6/30/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
A stylized adobestock picture of the word greenwashing on paper in a typewriter.

Alaskans are being greenwashed - again

When I first heard the term "greenwashed," I naturally assumed that it referred to the endless stream of misrepresentations that the American Environmental Industry dumps on a gullible public as par... — Updated 5/12/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska Miners Association Fairbanks fete Mining Day General Law 1872 opinion

AMA plans Mining Day fete in Fairbanks

On April 12, 2013, Governor Sean Parnell signed into law Senate Bill 1, "An Act establishing May 10 of each year as Alaska Mining Day; and providing for an effective date" (Chapter 6, SLA 2013),... — Updated 5/5/2022

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
President Biden administration jackleg Russia China opinion Alaska mining law

Biden demonstrates mining ignorance

This past week the Biden Administration released a document ineptly entitled "Fundamental Principles for Domestic Mining Reform." It would have been more accurately called "Eleven Ways to End... — Updated 3/10/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska opinion North of 60 Mining News politics ANCSA WOTUS Sackett EPA

Imagine a jigsaw puzzle without edges

In today's topsy-turvy world, perhaps the question we all should be asking is, in the unforgettable opening words of Admiral James Stockdale during the 1992 Vice Presidential debate, "Who am I, why... — Updated 3/4/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Tesla New York Times Elon Musk Gray Lady Battery Day 2020 exports Alaska

Gray Lady serves Tesla a sucker punch

In 1951, Life Magazine (remember "Life"?) dubbed the New York Times the "Old Gray Lady" "by way of acknowledging its special marks: starch conservatism and circumspection." How things have changed!... — Updated 2/3/2022 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska mining Joe Biden administration energy Tongass National Forest opinion

Miners must thread the eye of a needle

If global warming and the associated risk of climate change is due, at least in part, to anthropomorphic causes, it stands to reason that there are too many anthropoids (specifically, humanoids)... — Updated 12/16/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
North 60 Mining News opinion COVID mining Alaska president bipartisan AMA 2021

Our mining industry confronts threats

If there is one thing that most Americans can probably agree on, I think, it is that Joe Biden is the worst President we have had since Donald Trump. Since they both had a lot of things on their... — Updated 10/28/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion

Do we want a constitutional convention?

Decennially, the question of whether Alaska shall have a constitutional convention must appear on the ballot. Alaskans have voted on this issue five times since 1972 and defeated it soundly each... — Updated 10/28/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
President Eisenhower White House government Biden Pebble Donlin

It is not often wise to set a president

Following the model set by other successful generals such as George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower, after having essentially won the War in Europe, went on to... — Updated 9/30/2021 Full story

 
Tongass National Forest U.S. Forest Service Roadless Rule reimposition USGS FEIS

Tongass hosts vast economic potential

Southeast Alaska is at a unique crossroads in its management of the Tongass National Forest. How will reimposition of the 2001 Roadless Rule impact development of natural resources like geothermal,... — Updated 9/23/2021

 
 By J.P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska Transfer on Death Act deed inheritance mining law claims assets probate

Nothing is certain but death and taxes

In a recent case that crossed my desk, I was confronted by what seems to have been an easily avoided problem relating to the estate of a long-time, well-known, very sophisticated Alaska miner. Since... — Updated 8/26/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska mining Pebble project COVID pandemic vaccinations Clean Water Act

Youth, Youth, for the honor of truth

Over the past quadrennial, there has been a great deal of conversation about "truth." Especially in the political arena. Ostensibly, the number of "lies" that have emanated from the mouth of the... — Updated 7/29/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska Miners Association COVID-19 mining industry strategic minerals economy

The COVID elephant has left the state

Although new cases of COVID-19 are still appearing throughout the nation in general and Alaska in particular, at the moment they are hovering at the 40-per-day level apparently. The vaccine is worki... — Updated 6/24/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
President Joe Biden Alaska mining future Lisa Murkowski Deb Haaland

For Alaskans, it is a wonderful world

I always tend to look at the world through the wrong end of the telescope. For instance, many people regard the so-called political divisions in our country as being a problem, but for me, it is an... — Updated 5/27/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Alaska Miners Association Pebble project Bristol Bay fishery BBDF mining fishing

Reports contrast role of fishing, mining

In February, the Alaska Miners Association (AMA) released its annual report on the Economic Benefits of Alaska's Mining Industry. That report highlighted the fact that 4,700 direct and 9,600 indirec... — Updated 4/1/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
2020 Alaska Exploration map pandemic COVID-19 legislature DNR natural resources

Wanted: A pandemic-era silver lining

Without a doubt, 2020 was somewhat less than a perfect year. If you didn't like the way it started out, with an impeachment and a pandemic dominating the news, you might not have liked the way it... — Updated 2/25/2021 Full story

 
 By J. P. Tangen    Opinion
Pebble Mine Partnership Clean Water Act U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska

Why can't we placer mine tidal wetlands?

It has often been said that one should never watch sausages or laws being made. There are good reasons for saying that, especially in our quasi-democratic environment. For just cause we have... — Updated 2/11/2021 Full story

 
 By J.P. Tangen    Opinion
North of 60 Mining News Joe Biden COVID-19 Army Corps of Engineers

It was the best and the worst of times

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, now is a good time to reflect on and prognosticate about Alaska and things mining. First, with regard to things past, from the impeachment to the election, 2020... — Updated 1/14/2021 Full story

 

Page Down

Our Family of Publications Includes:

Mining News
Metal Tech News

Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software from Lions Light Corporation
© Copyright 2023