Will Sarah Palin's Alaska show feature how she turned the Lakes in Wasilla into cesspools?

[LynneSin]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/palin

WASILLA, Alaska -- Every morning she's at home here, Sarah Palin wakes up to a postcard view from her lakeside home. Out the windows of her two-story wood-framed house stretch the serene, birch-lined waters of Lake Lucille. Ducks go gliding by the red-and-white Piper Cub floatplane docked outside. With the snow-frosted Chugach and Talkeetna mountains looming in the distance, the scene seems to define the Alaska that Palin celebrates: rugged, majestic, unspoiled.

And, yet, the lake Sarah Palin lives on is dead.

"Lake Lucille is basically a dead lake -- it can't support a fish population," said Michelle Church, a Mat-Su Valley borough assembly member and environmentalist. "It's a runway for floatplanes."

Palin recently told the New Yorker magazine that Alaskans "have such a love, a respect for our environment, for our lands, for our wildlife, for our clean water and our clean air. We know what we've got up here and we want to protect that, so we're gonna make sure that our developments up here do not adversely affect that environment at all. I don't want development if there's going to be that threat to harming our environment."


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Among the environmental casualties of Wasilla's frenzied development was Palin's own front yard, Lake Lucille. The lake was listed as "impaired" in 1994 by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and it still carries that grim label. State environmental officials say that leaching sewer lines and fertilizer runoff caused an explosion of plant growth in the lake, which sucked the oxygen out of the water and led to periodic fish kills.

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Wasilla City Council member Dianne Woodruff hears the same lament about her town all the time. "Everywhere in Alaska, you hear people say, 'We don't want to be another Wasilla.' We're not just the state's meth capital, we're the ugly box-store capital. Was Sarah a good steward of this beautiful valley? No. I think it comes from her lack of experience and awareness of other places, how other cities try to preserve what makes them attractive and livable.

[old mark]

1. That and how she crippled their economy and created a huge defecit...

good thing she quit, she would have destroyed the state completely in 4 years.

mark

[mod mom]

2. Wonder if the Discovery Channel will showcase this little inconvenient fact.

[Winterblues]

3. No. I think it comes from her lack of experience and awareness

At least she wasn't a community organizer.....:sarcasm:

[MineralMan]

4. Well, I know that a look from Sarah can curdle milk,

so maybe just looking at that lake killed all life in it. :shrug:

[PearliePoo2]

5. She tells O'Reilly.......

"It's real. Alaska's real. It's pristine, it's clean, it's gorgeous and it's healthy."

In your pristine healthy lake....the DEAD fish go with the flow.
Your pants are on fire Ms Palin.