Sarah on Glenn Beck
June 2, 2008
Big kudos to Glenn Beck for his segment on energy, fuel costs and how Alaska can help with our national security. Sarah was a guest and did a great job explaining how we can help and how ridiculous it is to allow the entire nation to be held hostage by extreme environmentalists when we have so much to offer with our rich resources.
I don’t believe there is any quick fix that is going to give any long term relief for our current energy and fuel problems. I do believe Americans need to change their habits and government needs to allow for options and give incentives to alternative fuel sources. But we can’t be expected to all stop driving and eating because ice caps are melting and polar bears are (very arguably) endangered. We can’t ask our country’s young people to continue to risk and sacrifice their lives to secure foreign energy reserves when we have our own right here at home.
You can watch the segment over to the right in the Featured Video section.
Pipe Dreams
June 2, 2008
Newsweek:
by Tony Hopfinger - Alaska is home to gigantic untapped natural-gas fields. But can the state and energy industry finally agree to build a pipeline to transport the fuel?
As Americans feel the pinch at the gas pump amid $128 a barrel oil, there’s at least one place in the United States where high energy prices aren’t all bad news. Alaska, home to America’s prolific oil fields, is reaping billions of dollars in record oil-tax revenue. That, along with a populist governor determined to deliver a megapipeline project to the state, is fueling optimism among Alaskans that an energy boom may be just around the corner.
The next boom might not come from oil, however. In fact, residents aren’t putting much stock in the renewed effort under way to allow oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeast Alaska, often cited as America’s best chance for a major onshore oil discovery but deemed sacred ground by environmentalists.
State will sue over polar bear listing
May 22, 2008
Newsminer:
The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday. She and other Alaska elected officials fear a listing will cripple oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat off the state’s northern and northwestern coasts. Palin argued that there is not enough evidence to support a listing. Polar bears are well-managed and their population has dramatically increased over 30 years as a result of conservation, she said.
Alaska towns say hello to renewable energy
April 20, 2008
Newsminer.com:
For now, most of rural Alaska gets its electricity from burning diesel. But if things go according to plan, communities around the state will soon be making power from everything but fossil fuel. Read more
Governor Comments on Funding Request
April 12, 2008
Governor Palin today released a statement on a $25,000 budget request from some lawmakers to pay for state government dissemination of information related to mining. The funds would be used to allow state officials to inform the public about Alaska mining, the stringent permitting process already in place to govern mining, and to provide data on initiatives affecting those mining activities. Read more
