The rubber-stamp board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is likely to vote Wednesday to approve a $190 million ANWR spending plan that was posted on the state public notice website Sunday.
There is nothing on the AIDEA website that explains the $190 million spending plan and nothing that explains how and when to testify. There is nothing that justifies AIDEA’s secret decision to bid on more tracts in ANWR in the current lease sale aimed at the private sector.
Read MoreGlenfarne claims it has no intention of ever answering that question in public until the Legislature acts on a tax cut. Later on, when the state decides if it should invest in the project, all will be revealed, Glenfarne claims.
There is a serious problem with this approach.
Read MoreGwen Holdmann writes that given changes in the energy picture, she believes the Susitna “project deserves one last serious reconsideration before Alaska closes the door on it — likely for good.”
Read MoreI am waiting for the moment when Dunleavy announces the Donald J. Trump Golden Alaska LNG Pipeline and invites Trump to enjoy himself at Nikiski-lago.
Read MoreHilcorp, owned by Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand, could qualify for a new state subsidy for gas drilling in Cook Inlet potentially worth $30 million to $50 million under a plan approved by the House Finance Committee Wednesday,
Fairbanks Rep. Will Stapp said his proposed reduction in the state’s royalty share from natural gas leases was the “Save Anchorage” or “Save Southcentral” amendment.
Read More“Has anyone come up and said, our alternative is a bunch of stationary bikes with generators on them? Or jumping jacks? Or burn barrels with wood in them or coal or anything? Have they come up with something?”
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration is now saying that a gas line spur to connect Fairbanks to the proposed LNG export project would cost nearly $250 million.
Fairbanks consumers and utilities would have to pay the $250 million under the scheme Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation have promoted for years.
The scheme to exclude Fairbanks goes back to Gov. Sean Parnell and the pipeline route that was chosen to pass just west of the boundary of the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
Read MoreIn the 22nd hearing it has held on the Dunleavy plan to cut taxes on the proposed gas pipeline by 90 percent, the Senate Resources Committee tried on May 1 to fathom the mysteries of the gravel giveaway.
The lack of news coverage of those 22 hearings is a problem for Alaskans, as most of us are not following along with the analysis of the Dunleavy plan to cut the pipeline taxes by 90 percent. I will try to catch up here in the days ahead.
Read MoreOn behalf of all Alaskans, Temporary Attorney General Stephen Cox signed this amicus brief claiming that not everyone born in the United States deserves to be a citizen.
For more than a century, lawyers and government officials have misinterpreted the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to Cox, who said he reached this conclusion over the last couple of years—more or less corresponding to the second Trump era.
Cox decided—without raising this issue with Alaskans for a public discussion—to aid an Outside court fight to oppose birthright citizenship for some people born in the United States.
Read MoreAnother strategic choice that Cox is making is that he has gone out of his way in his confirmation hearings to appear to be the most conciliatory attorney on the planet, a guy with no sharp edges and not a hint of stridency, nothing at all like a right-wing culture warrior.
The amicus briefs that he has signed reveal his true character as a right-wing culture warrior, but he knows he can’t appear that way in confirmation hearings where he must convince legislators who haven’t read the amicus briefs that his is a voice of moderation.
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