The U.S. government has provoked a severe incident management Alaska, posnaniensis significantly strengthen the protection of natural sites of the region. This version of the adepts of the state, will limit the powers of local authorities and will deprive the edge capacity to deal with resource extraction.
Between the Federal government of the United States and the state of Alaska broke the incident due to the fact that Washington intended to limit the powers of local authorities and to deprive the region the opportunity to develop their own economy through mining masquerading as concern about the environment. Thus, the administration of the United States wants to strengthen the protection of the American protected areas in the Arctic, for example, by closing access roads and forbidding in the construction of new roads and carrying out geological exploration for oil and gas.
The President of the United States Barack Obama, in his address to the nation, announced that the proposed steps will allow you to preserve for future generations the wilderness area. The announcement of the government, however, was perceived by the Governor of Alaska, bill Walker and lawmakers from the state in the Congress of the United States in a very negative way. They saw the events as an attack on their own authority, but the attempt to deprive the authorities of Alaska opportunities to engage in their own land through the production of energy.
The private joint statement published in the local press, the Governor and the state legislature called the initiative an unprecedented attack on Alaska. "Now they decided to declare war on Alaska. Well, we are battle ready," TASS quoted the Chairman of the Committee on energy and natural resources of the Senate of the Congress of Lisa Murkowski, which is Alaska in the upper house of Congress. With all this, the need to negotiate and agree their own actions the administration of the United States ignores. "I can't understand why the current administration is ready to negotiate with Iran, but not to Alaska," Murkowski said.
Don young, working in the house of representatives, described the proposed solution as a large-scale seizure of the territory and the encroachment on the life style of the inhabitants of Alaska. The initiative did not come into force - it needs before it can gain the consent of Congress. Lisa Murkowski expressed belief that with the current composition of Congress will not accept this decision.
As an additional measure of protection can be extended to the coastal plains of the joint area of about 5.7 thousand square km, which lie to the North of the mountain range of Brooks.