Opinion: Chugach Electric board candidate rejects self-limiting decarbonization agenda
Much of the policy adopted by Chugach Electric in recent years has favored organizations that invest in alternative energy. For an electric utility that serves more than 90,000 rate payers, this strategy is shortsighted and heavily reliant on regulation to
Powerful climate activists aim to stack Mat-Su, Homer & Chugach electric boards
Well-connected environmental activist organizations across Alaska are proactively working to stack local electric cooperative boards with candidates who are ideologically aligned with pursuing controversial and largely unproven alternatives to fossil
OPINION: A gas line can spring Alaska free from the resource trap
If Alaska is serious about escaping the resource trap we created for ourselves, we need to start acting like a state that still knows how to build big things. The Alaska gas line is the clearest test of whether we mean
Gubernatorial candidates on unlocking Alaska’s resources & diversifying revenue
Alaska faces structural deficits due to volatile oil prices and heavy federal reliance. If elected as Alaska’s chief executive, what concrete steps are you willing and able to take to unlock our resources and diversify the state’s revenue
OPINION: Fear-based distrust of new energy projects holds Alaska back
Alaska’s energy future is on the line, and too often our first instinct is to say no. Not a careful no, not a measured no, but a reflexive, default position that shuts the door before the facts ever get a fair hearing. That fear-based approach does not
OPINION: Clean coal & data centers could propel Mat-Su growth for decades
Alaska often says it wants jobs, a stronger revenue base without an income tax, a healthy dividend, and an economy that is not dependent only on oil and the Permanent Fund. Yet when opportunities appear, we sometimes shut the door before the discussion even
Radical anti-fossil fuel activists push new climate-change bills in Alaska
Zealous anti-fossil-fuel activists are currently urging their fellow environmentalists to pressure Alaska legislators into passing climate-change legislation that would impose a slew of new permits, regulations and green-energy
Alaska agrees to 20-year federal partnership to manage and harvest Tongass forest
The U.S. Forest Service and the State of Alaska have signed a groundbreaking 20-year shared stewardship agreement aimed at expanding forest management and strengthening Alaska’s timber
Alaska’s top resource extraction support group backs Sullivan over Peltola
In his bid to defeat challenger Mary Peltola, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan picked up the endorsement of one of Alaska’s top groups working to support the state’s resource extraction
OPINION: Alaska’s energy future is within reach – if we don’t regulate it away
Alaska should not be a pawn in someone else’s energy strategy. We will not allow outsider activists to turn us into a postcard or wildlife park. We are a resource state with the capacity to supply affordable gas to America for generations. The progress
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