State of Alaska secondary Archives: on Energy & Oil

Les Gara: Require state buildings to be energy efficient & renewables

Governor Dunleavy has killed 6,000 good paying jobs just by ducking our fiscal crisis and demanding a decimated construction budget. Our austerity construction budget has taken away good paying jobs, harms businesses, and leaves less money to circulate through our economy. It's left Alaska's main port, and our roads and infrastructure across the state unmaintained. It's prevented needed energy projects, including renewable energy projects that can lower the high cost of electricity and heating.

Les Gara: Supports "responsible" oil development and mining

Tony Knowles: Seek ANWR through a bill that sets tougher mileage standards

KNOWLES: Instead of trying to push a "partisan, secret, pork-filled bill that's now lying dead on the floor of Congress," an Alaska senator needs to seek ANWR through a bill that also sets tougher mileage standards for cars and requires power plants to use a certain percentage of renewable fuels, he said. "That's the balance that I believe is going to bring about the development of ANWR and the gas line," he said.