There is one issue very lightly and indirectly mentioned in this article,  which has a very large effect to not only future development in Alaska but anywhere else in this nation.  Collier stated it quite well, "regulator is sleeping with environmental activists and nobody seems to care".

The EPA is one of several Federal agencies which are taking preemptive strikes against business and personal affairs, long before those entities have any legal authority to do so.  From closing established access roads, such as was tried with the Kantishna miners, shutting off water access and limiting grazing land for ranchers, prohibiting American citizens from "viewing" Mount Rushmore from a "public" roadway, to publicly denigrating a potential business way before any permits for development were ever applied for.  Under the original law, was when such agencies  became involved.  

This then becomes 'Rule and Control' by the highest bidder or by Dictatorial edict from the elite.  Not the law!