By ALEX GIMARC
April 18, 2026 – Received the most recent missive from the Alaska Center (For the Environment) yesterday. It was an 8 x 11” beauty, color, printed on both side of heavy, glossy card stock.
The mailer took Sen. Dan Sullivan to task for his vote to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act July 1, 2025, making this particular complaint a mere nine months late.
Their main complaint is that Sullivan “… voted to increase Alaskans’ electricity and heating bills.”
It is how they claim he did that where the Lying Liars Who Lie self-identify.
The Alaska Center really, really wanted Chugach Electric Association to commit economic suicide by backing a pair of huge renewable projects in the MatSu. Both of these were in the 120 MW range, one solar, one wind. Neither included storage.
The problem is that federal support for those projects disappeared into the same ether that the rest of the manmade global warming due to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions hoax did on Jan 21, 2025, when newly elected President Donald Trump was sworn into office.
The referenced $355 million in federal grants for those and similar projects disappeared by Executive action. Congress locked those decisions into federal law July 1. And there is nothing the Alaska Center can do about it, other than make it part of the sprawling campaign to replace him with Mary Peltola, all funded by a flood of Outside money into Alaska.
They hilariously go on to claim that “New energy infrastructure will be more expensive to build, and “Costs will increase for household energy upgrades.” Happily, the daily cost of electricity will not, as solar and wind always causes those costs to increase. Even better, the grid-wide instability introduced when large renewable projects come online will not happen either.
I would call that a win-win.
What Sen. Sullivan actually has done is work to lower electricity costs in Alaska. Quite a bit, actually, starting with backing lease sales for new oil and natural gas production from Cook Inlet to ANWR to NPR-A and offshore. \ He is backing a natural gas pipeline. Everyone in the delegation supports Small Modular Reactors (Gen IV SMRs). The more production we have, the more natural gas we will have, and the lower energy costs will be, a little economic point that seems to escape True Believers at The Alaska Center and their fellow travelers at REAP.
It is unclear precisely what sort of household energy upgrades The Alaska Center is talking about, as the need for home generators will decrease if grid reliability continues to be high. Bringing two large renewable projects online would tend to destroy reliability to the point where Chugach members start installing home generation to simply keep up with expected blackouts. We are seeing this reaction in Colorado where their democrats are forcing them off fossil fuels with the resulting increase in blackouts.
If the Alaska Center were truly interested in controlling electric and heating bills, you would expect them to be demanding the Watana dam for the electric piece and some combination of drilling in Cook Inlet, some project to ship natural gas off the North Slope, and SMRs in the Bush. Unsurprisingly, they have done none of these.
When you receive a flyer like this (and there will be many more to follow), look it as another round of the Democrat effort to replace Senator Sullivan with Mary Peltola funded by Outside and taxpayer money laundered through national and local NGOs. While I’m positive (note sarcasm) that there is no coordination between the NGO and the campaign, who needs coordination when the means, goals and money sources all lean in the same direction?
The Alaska Center is railing against the sensible, affordable energy solutions provided by the Alaska congressional delegation. Even Lisa is involved bringing reactors into the state. The Alaska Center seems unable to do little more than carp about problems that happily no longer exist.
Happily, they are unable to create new ones, at least for a couple more years.
Alex Gimarc lives in Anchorage since retiring from the military in 1997. His interests include science and technology, environment, energy, economics, military affairs, fishing and disabilities policies. His weekly column “Interesting Items” is a summary of news stories with substantive Alaska-themed topics. He was a small business owner and Information Technology professional.
One thought on “Alex Gimarc: Lying liars who lie at the Alaska Center (for the Environment)”
The,reason that energy infrastructure is so expensive to build is the litigious creeps like the ones complaining here, who keep suing to block anything from being built( like hydro power projects) and trying to get the existing ones removed don’t you love the hypocrisy??