Global leaders headed north for Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference
Gov. Mike Dunleavy will host energy leaders, policymakers and industry experts from across the nation and around the world at the fifth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference, taking place May 19-21 at the Dena'ina Center in
OPINION: Faux Republicans stall low-cost Alaska energy bill while pushing high-priced pensions
Is Gov. Dunleavy being pressured to accept a long-term, cost escalating public pension plan bill for state employees in exchange for movement on a policy that promises to lower energy
Alaska House bill’s subtle name game undercuts hunting and trapping
Our wildlife resources are too economically valuable - and too important to rural jobs, self-funded conservation, and the state’s overall prosperity - to allow subtle framing shifts to undermine
OPINION: Competing bills reflect divergent visions of Alaska’s gas line future
A lot of Alaskans are going to hear about Senate Bills 280 and 275 and assume they are basically the same. Both deal with the Alaska natural gas pipeline project, but one is written to help a project get built. The other aims to maximize the state’s take,
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
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