TRANSMISSION LINE INVESTIGATED TO JOIN NW BC WITH SE ALASKA
Merv Ritchie - Terrace Daily Online
North Coast Power Corp has been given the go ahead by BC’s Integrated Land Management Bureau to investigate the Iskut River Valley for a grid interconnection to Alaska. The Northwest Transmission Line (NTL) is presently planned to extend to Bob Quinn Lake. North Coast Power will be investigating the route to join this new grid with a connection to the present grid in SE Alaska at Tyee Lake, which currently connects the communities of Petersburg, Wrangell and more recently, Ketchikan and now Metlakatla with a submarine cable.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Senator Murkowski Introduces Bills to Boost Hydropower Generation | Renewable Energy World
Senator Murkowski Introduces Bills to Boost Hydropower Generation | Renewable Energy World
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. 7/14/10 (PennWell) --
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at increasing the production of electricity from renewable hydropower and creating jobs in America’s energy sector. The "Hydropower Improvement Act" and the "Hydropower Renewable Energy Development Act" would boost federal support for hydropower projects.
The Hydropower Improvement Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash; Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash; and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, aims to increase the capacity of our nation’s hydropower sources to generate clean, renewable electricity by up to 75,000 megawatts.
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. 7/14/10 (PennWell) --
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at increasing the production of electricity from renewable hydropower and creating jobs in America’s energy sector. The "Hydropower Improvement Act" and the "Hydropower Renewable Energy Development Act" would boost federal support for hydropower projects.
The Hydropower Improvement Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash; Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash; and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, aims to increase the capacity of our nation’s hydropower sources to generate clean, renewable electricity by up to 75,000 megawatts.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Could MacKenzie Gas Gain Momentum from British Petroleum's Gulf Oil Spill
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/energy/5264-could-mackenzie-gas-gain-momentum-from-gulf-oil-spillCould MacKenzie Gas Gain Momentum from British Petroleum's Gulf Oil Spill?
Alaskans Mourn the loss of former Governor Walter J. Hickel - Fairbanks Daily Newsminer
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - The voice of Interior Alaska since 1903
SITKA, Alaska - Alaskans on Saturday mourned the loss of former Gov. Walter J. Hickel and remembered him as a visionary and a maverick.
Alaska Democrats, meeting for their convention in Sitka, had a moment of silence in honor of Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Richard Nixon until Hickel was dismissed for objecting to the treatment of Vietnam War protesters.
A ripple of "Oh!" and "Oh, my God" rippled through the audience as word of his death, at age 90, was announced Saturday morning.
Alaska Democrats, meeting for their convention in Sitka, had a moment of silence in honor of Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Richard Nixon until Hickel was dismissed for objecting to the treatment of Vietnam War protesters.
A ripple of "Oh!" and "Oh, my God" rippled through the audience as word of his death, at age 90, was announced Saturday morning.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Alaska's lone Congressman speaks of his support for an Alaska-BC Intertie, the Wrangell Sentinel
Wrangell Sentinel - the oldest continuously published paper in Alaska.
Alaska’s lone U.S. House Representative visited Wrangell Apr. 14 and Petersburg Apr. 15 to discuss various topics with residents including hydropower development, the recently passed health care bill, Sealaska and timber production.
Republican Don Young used a meeting with members of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce to reaffirm his decision to run for a 20th term in the House.
“I am running, and will run hard,” Young said.
Young said that hydropower is as important to Southeast residents as the gas line is to the rest of Alaska. He said that hydropower development should be a priority.
“There should be an abundance of hydro power,” he said.
Click above link for full Wrangell Sentinel story.
Alaska’s lone U.S. House Representative visited Wrangell Apr. 14 and Petersburg Apr. 15 to discuss various topics with residents including hydropower development, the recently passed health care bill, Sealaska and timber production.
Republican Don Young used a meeting with members of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce to reaffirm his decision to run for a 20th term in the House.
“I am running, and will run hard,” Young said.
Young said that hydropower is as important to Southeast residents as the gas line is to the rest of Alaska. He said that hydropower development should be a priority.
“There should be an abundance of hydro power,” he said.
Click above link for full Wrangell Sentinel story.
Alaska's lone Congressman speaks of his support for an Alaska-BC Intertie, the Wrangell SentinelWrangell Sentinel
Wrangell Sentinel - the oldest continuously published paper in Alaska.
Alaska’s lone U.S. House Representative visited Wrangell Apr. 14 and Petersburg Apr. 15 to discuss various topics with residents including hydropower development, the recently passed health care bill, Sealaska and timber production.
Republican Don Young used a meeting with members of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce to reaffirm his decision to run for a 20th term in the House.
“I am running, and will run hard,” Young said.
Young said that hydropower is as important to Southeast residents as the gas line is to the rest of Alaska. He said that hydropower development should be a priority.
“There should be an abundance of hydro power,” he said.
Click above link for full Wrangell Sentinel story.
Alaska’s lone U.S. House Representative visited Wrangell Apr. 14 and Petersburg Apr. 15 to discuss various topics with residents including hydropower development, the recently passed health care bill, Sealaska and timber production.
Republican Don Young used a meeting with members of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce to reaffirm his decision to run for a 20th term in the House.
“I am running, and will run hard,” Young said.
Young said that hydropower is as important to Southeast residents as the gas line is to the rest of Alaska. He said that hydropower development should be a priority.
“There should be an abundance of hydro power,” he said.
Click above link for full Wrangell Sentinel story.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Telling the Northwest Transmission Line story
This is an excellent explanation of what is transpiring in the North Coast Mountain region of British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon. Have a view of this video, it may not fit your view of how things may be, but it definitely promises to change things for a number of folks who live marginally and love the region in which they live. This means jobs for those who wish to remain on the land they love.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
BBC News - Canada's 'secret land' Yukon woos tourists
BBC News - Canada's 'secret land' Yukon woos tourists
As Vancouver gears up for its second stint as Olympic host with the Paralympics beginning on 12 March, one northern Canadian territory is hoping the lasting legacy of the Games will be a boost to tourism.
The government of Yukon spent just under 3m Canadian dollars (£1.9m) trying to educate people about their territory during the Winter Games, promoting it as a great place to travel, invest and do business.
"The people that go to the Olympics are our kind of people," says Sheila Dodd, who works in economic and tourism development for Whitehorse, Yukon's capital.
As Vancouver gears up for its second stint as Olympic host with the Paralympics beginning on 12 March, one northern Canadian territory is hoping the lasting legacy of the Games will be a boost to tourism.
The government of Yukon spent just under 3m Canadian dollars (£1.9m) trying to educate people about their territory during the Winter Games, promoting it as a great place to travel, invest and do business.
"The people that go to the Olympics are our kind of people," says Sheila Dodd, who works in economic and tourism development for Whitehorse, Yukon's capital.
First nation leads Northwest economic revival - Vancouver Sun
First nation leads Northwest economic revival
An isolated first nation on the northern British Columbia coast is emerging as a new economic powerhouse leading the rebirth of the Northwest's forest industry.
There are no roads to the village of Lax Kw'alaams and most British Columbians would be hard-pressed to find it on a map.
But in the last decade, this village, 30 kilometres by boat north of Prince Rupert, has levered its own forest resources to build a solid financial balance sheet and focus on building a northwestern empire of wood with a global reach. From the verge of bankruptcy, it has transformed itself into an economic engine for the region; its logging operations are pumping millions of dollars into the economies of Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Click above link for full story in the Vancouver Sun
An isolated first nation on the northern British Columbia coast is emerging as a new economic powerhouse leading the rebirth of the Northwest's forest industry.
There are no roads to the village of Lax Kw'alaams and most British Columbians would be hard-pressed to find it on a map.
But in the last decade, this village, 30 kilometres by boat north of Prince Rupert, has levered its own forest resources to build a solid financial balance sheet and focus on building a northwestern empire of wood with a global reach. From the verge of bankruptcy, it has transformed itself into an economic engine for the region; its logging operations are pumping millions of dollars into the economies of Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Click above link for full story in the Vancouver Sun
Thursday, March 11, 2010
B.C. group touts green economic solution
B.C. group touts green economic solution
B.C. could pull in about $4.3 billion annually and eliminate its debt over several years by tapping into and selling its vast green-energy potential, said a report released yesterday.
Bio-energy, run-of-river, wind, geothermal, tidal, wave and solar energy could all be developed to help the environment and to work towards wiping out B.C.'s debt in 15 years or less, said the B.C. Citizens for Green Energy's 76-page report.
"B.C. is widely recognized as having a natural abundance of renewable green energy resources. However, this natural abundance is currently going virtually untapped as are the economic and environmental benefits that developing them could bring to our province," said the report, titled A Triple Legacy for Future Generations: B.C.'s Potential as a Renewable Green Energy Powerhouse.
Read more by clicking above link. To go to the greenenergybc website.
B.C. could pull in about $4.3 billion annually and eliminate its debt over several years by tapping into and selling its vast green-energy potential, said a report released yesterday.
Bio-energy, run-of-river, wind, geothermal, tidal, wave and solar energy could all be developed to help the environment and to work towards wiping out B.C.'s debt in 15 years or less, said the B.C. Citizens for Green Energy's 76-page report.
"B.C. is widely recognized as having a natural abundance of renewable green energy resources. However, this natural abundance is currently going virtually untapped as are the economic and environmental benefits that developing them could bring to our province," said the report, titled A Triple Legacy for Future Generations: B.C.'s Potential as a Renewable Green Energy Powerhouse.
Read more by clicking above link. To go to the greenenergybc website.
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