Mr. Hammons worked as an accountant on the Alaska Highway project before joining the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.

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As anyone running for statewide office in Alaska, to oppose a project like this would have been a political suicide.

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It's redirected the money to other alternatives in Alaska and has gone to one project that's on the Gravina Island, it's a road project.

NPR: Origins Of Bridge To Nowhere Explained

Palin also shares McCain's opposition to earmarks, opposing the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere, " a pet project of two titans of Alaska politics, Rep. Don Young and Sen.

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They are working on a project in the Cook Inlet of Alaska that would provide enough syngas to fuel a 100 MW power plant, as well as investigating opportunities for UGC in Alberta and Wyoming.

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Over the summer Barrick announced a tougher stance on capital expenditure, and deferred indefinitely its major Cerro Casale project in Chile and Donlin Creek in Alaska.

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And it redirected it to Alaska but it wasn't earmarked legally to that one project.

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After the mining company, which is working on properties in Western Canada and Alaska, said it and partner Teck Cominco halted an unexpectedly costly mining project in British Columbia, its shares lost more than half their value on Monday.

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Another project involved the establishment of daily ice and weather observations by indigenous monitors in Alaska, Canada and Russian Chukotka, thus providing an uninterrupted record of indigenous observations covering four consecutive ice seasons.

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The bridge comment -- a reference to an Alaskan project that Palin supported and then rejected -- was one of Biden's few digs at the Alaska governor.

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