{"id":285897,"date":"2023-10-31T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285897"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:51:47","slug":"arctic-grift-alaska-energy-policy-goes-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285897","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Grift: Alaska Energy Policy Goes Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alaska grift is reaching new levels to comport with the Inflation Reduction Act (aka Green New Deal). Alaska Governor\u00a0Mike Dunleavy<\/a>, all-in with Green Globalism, has appointed a energy security task force of cronies who lack real experience in or affinity with the state\u2019s oil and gas sector.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From \u00a0Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Kassie Andrews<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhy is a conservative pro-development governor pushing for policies that are counterproductive to natural resource development?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Alaska Energy Security Task Force report does not mention maximizing the use of the abundant energy sources we have in our state today, such as coal, in-state refining, or the incentivization of production in the Cook Inlet where, according to the USGS, we are not in a natural gas shortage situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Alaska grift is reaching new levels to comport with the Inflation Reduction Act (aka Green New Deal). Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy<\/a>, all-in with Green Globalism, has appointed a energy security task force of cronies who lack real experience in or affinity with the state\u2019s oil and gas sector. Instead of inciting investment in Alaska\u2019s prolific resource base, Biden\u2019s obstruction and subsidy bribery will risk making the state a federal enclave, with its top import being federal dollars. With the feds owning 60 percent of the land in the state<\/a>, they have a club in the closet.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think what we\u2019re seeing from the federal government is an elevation of climate change and other sorts of ideological considerations over an acknowledgement of the need for energy security and affordability in Alaska,\u201d stated Department of Natural Resources Commissioner John Boyle, who pointed to the feds as \u201csquarely responsible\u201d for the lack of investment in the state and for \u201cintimidating industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Dunleavy followed up by saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we are seeing is a forced conversion to another type of approach to energy that is not being market driven.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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When you sell uncertainty across the board, it shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that investors are hesitant to invest, especially in a place like Alaska.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

These quotations sound nice, but on closer examination Governor Dunleavy is of a different stripe, and certainly out of step as a Republican in the state. In fact, Alaska politicians are working with Washington to implement Biden\u2019s whole-of-government approach to climate and energy<\/em>. At the same time, the state faces a growing scarcity of natural gas and increasing energy prices because of a lack of incentives for reinvestment in Alaska\u2019s huge resource base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the Governor and the Commissioner referenced the federal cancellation of leases in 2021 in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a factor in industry hesitation to move forward with investment in the Cook Inlet. The two faces of the administration are on full display.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good portion of a press conference last Thursday<\/a> discussed the need for more Cook Inlet gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On February 23, 2023, Governor Dunleavy issued an administrative order<\/a> establishing the Alaska Energy Security Task Force to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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develop a comprehensive statewide energy plan that will evaluate energy generation, distribution, and transmission for the State of Alaska and its communities. The development of this plan will include collaboration with public and private stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This task force, and the subcommittees within it, held a series of meetings<\/a> between April 25 and October 3, 2023, when the initial draft was first published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it was not written into the administrative order, Dunleavy charged the task force with creating a plan that gets Alaskan electricity rates to 10\u00a2\/kWh. (The 10\u00a2\/kWh goal is referenced in the draft plan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the concern around Alaska\u2019s energy security has been centered on the notion that the natural gas supply in the Cook Inlet, supporting 80 percent of the power generation for the largest population center in Alaska, is declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is broken into 6 different focus areas \u2013 Railbelt, Coastal, Rural, State Energy Data, Incentives-and-Subsidies, and Statutes-and-Regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n