At long last the borough climate action committee meets Tuesday at 6 p.m. Four of the members have submitted comments about revisions they want in the draft plan. The most valuable are from scientist Terry Chapin and Borough Mayor Bryce Ward.
Read MoreKelly Tshibaka, who is acting as if her next act will be to run against Rep. Mary Peltola for Congress, is trying to keep herself in the public eye with a new nonprofit she has started called “Preserve Democracy.”
She will portray herself as a victim of ranked choice voting, while raising money and generating publicity Outside, trying to preserve her political options in Alaska and claiming that ranked choice voting is a threat to democracy.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration has refused to explain how it intends to generate $7 billion in new revenue over the next decade, though it released a state budget forecast saying the money will begin to appear starting next summer, rising to $900 million a year by 2027.
The Senate Natural Resources Committee plans a hearing Wednesday at 4 p.m. that may inject a sense of reality into the carbon capture and sequestration plans that Gov. Mike Dunleavy is promoting as a painless cure to state budget problems.
Read MoreThe uncertain future of Cook Inlet natural gas supplies has the Interior Gas Utility turning its focus to the North Slope and a proposed 20-year contract with Harvest Midstream, a company owned by Hilcorp. Liquefied natural gas would be shipped to Fairbanks by truck.
Read MoreHank Nuwer, the new managing editor of the Daily News-Miner, is a veteran author and teacher from Indiana who has long owned 15 acres outside of Tok.
Read MoreThe near-term revenue prospects for the state from carbon sequestration are signifiant, but not in the billions or the hundreds of millions, according to a state consultant’s report that is happily devoid of the over-aggressive sales pitch that Gov. Mike Dunleavy has adopted. The report calls for three pilot projects that would bring the state about $8 million a year.
Read MoreCarbon sequestration holds potential as an income source for Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is right about that. But Dunleavy keeps overselling this as a miracle money machine that will cost the state nothing to get going and will generate enormous returns in short order, $7 billion over the next decade.
Read MoreThe proposal by the EPA this week to reject key parts of the state air plan comes against the backdrop of a fifth federal lawsuit filed against the agency because it has missed deadline after deadline in coming up with a workable plan over many years.
Read MoreEPA questions the state claim that modifications to existing power plants are not feasible because they are so expensive. This has serious implications for the Fairbanks area. The health consequences of breathing polluted air also have serious implications for the Fairbanks area.
Read MoreI’ll say this much for the effort to overturn the Two Rivers fire service election—the proposed assembly ordinance makes it clear that this is not about election irregularities, a mistake in a newspaper story or any of the other excuses invented to disguise the truth.
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