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As I reported last fall (http://www.partizane.com/node/376), right after Palin first took office as Governor, she threw her support behind the effort to create a state-level Climate Control Cabinet and under her governance Alaska became one of the first states to do so. In this same vein, in January of 2008, she announced the appointment of an Energy Coordinator to activate a statewide energy plan, now approved by the state legislators, which would include earnings from a Renewable Energy Fund for implementing alternative projects, including hydro, wind, geothermal and biomass.
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According to the Alaska Daily News, the Governor has just announced:
"the most ambitious renewable energy goals in the nation" and has "called for 50 percent of Alaska's power to be generated by renewable resources by 2025."
[ Palin released in January 2009 ]"a guide listing alternative energy assets of every village in Alaska. Those resources can be developed to wean far-flung villages off electricity generated by burning diesel fuel..... The community guide is a primer on alternative energy sources as well as an inventory for projects. For example, the accompanying documentation shows that Scammon Bay, a mile from the Bering Sea in western Alaska, has the potential for a wind-diesel hybrid project, and that 700 miles to the northeast on the Yukon River, the village of Circle has potential for generating electricity with geothermal resources. ......
Pat Lavin, an attorney for the National Wildlife Federation, has called Palin's announcement "a defining moment in Alaska's history." ....
Palin energy adviser Steve Haagenson, who oversaw the village report, also unveiled the first 77 projects picked for grants from the $100 million Alaska Renewable Energy Fund. They range from wind farms in the Aleutians, Kodiak and Delta Junction to a landfill gas recovery project in Anchorage. .......
Joe Balash, Palin's aide on oil and gas, said there will be a continuing effort to find new power generation sources for the Railbelt, likely through a new corporation that can handle projects beyond the capability of individual utilities. Talks have been ongoing with utilities, he said, and legislation likely will be introduced in the 90-day 2009 session, which kicks off Tuesday."
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/657216.html
Quoted from http://www.partizane.com/node/673
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