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.
27 thoughts 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??
You mean the litigious creeps who sue to block sane and logical energy production. Some psychological projection there.
Environmental wackos are starting to feel themselves in a pinch. Trump has already reversed many of the policies that sustain their propaganda. Like Trump has stated, the environmental agenda is the largest hoax in American history.
SNORT! Andy, please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, tell me you don’t believe anything Trump says.
What do you know about the ” love of God”?, Mr. Anti religion???
Anti religion AND an ordained atheist.
Atheism is a religion, just like black, the absence of color is a color. Thanks. for playing, though. Cheers –
I just went out and bought a new F-250, a gas lawnmower, another snow mobile and two gas chain saws. My son works at Prudhoe Bay as a driller. Oil for all!!
God is Great.
Rich and selfish. Good for you American TAKER.
You’re quite humorous when your every utterance is taken with the (many) grains of salt of which they are worthy. Just like America’s favorite (NOT) Holiday gift of yore. You’re a fruit cake.
Here’s some math. Trump’s WWIII is about oil, stealing it, killing for it, destroying lives, economies and infrastructure for it. His War Whim is costing us 50 billion dollars with no end in sight. Tell me which is more economical- oil or renewables.
Easy, OIL. Renewables are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, expensive to store the produced DC, and expensive to convert to AC. Along with you, the Alaska center is a crackpot organization dependent on lies and falsehoods for their money.
Wrong answer MQ. The correct answer is obvious and, dance all you want, you’ve been fooled. Or maybe you’re just unwilling to project environmental, social, and economic costs into the future. If you studied the core and indefatigable selfishness and cruelty of humans and plastered that over our future, you’d see that we are fucked. UNLESS we can convert to renewables, we are a dead pool of suffering.
But you’re doing ok right now I’ll bet. Got kids?
Renewables are also much harder on the environment. Cheers –
Absolutely not true
Please list the number of birds killed by wind turbines over the past decade. Now list the number of whales killed by the offshore wind farms on the east coast. How much arable farm land is given up to solar panel farms these days? And which of those two choices has reliably delivered energy to anyone in Alaska or anywhere else? Evan, you are a lefty hack who drank the koolaid. We get it. You are anti-science because your beliefs are pie-in-the-sky nonsense. You come here to try to poke the bear, but perhaps at some point you will realize the bear just doesn’t care about your feels.
Alex is 100% correct. You should do MUCH more homework before you launch into your missives.
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When we see cold fusion arrive within the century (Okay ‘we’ won’t see it), this entire, stupid notion of using wind and the sun to power everything will evaporate like ice on hot pavement.
Ask Europe how “renewables” are working out for them. Hands down oil is more economical than “renewables”, oil literally funds the government of all levels in this country without oil our economy wouldn’t just stall it would fail. Without oil entire civilizations would cease to exist, the standards of modern life would rapidly decline to the time when whale oil was used to light up the night, water wouldn’t flow, sewage would run through the streets, disease and death would follow in numbers beyond comprehension. Oil is more economical than “renewables”, full stop.
“………Trump’s WWIII is about oil………”
The war with Iran is about terrorism, Iran’s proxy warfare with Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and ISIS, and their nuclear ambitions. The only role oil plays in it is the dependence of other nations to Persian Gulf oil and gas, and denying Iran the income from their oil sales to fund warfare throughout the world. In my opinion, the U.S. should absolutely destroy Kharg Island and deny oil exports from Iran for a long, long time……….not “take” it.
Gimarc. Not a word salad – you’re a good writer, but an ideology salad.
Tomato. Tomahto. Cheers –
Alex, do you believe they are “fossil” fuels? Or petroleum, or carbon-based, instead?
Thanks, Ben
Howdy, Ben –
I adopt the “fossil fuels” name for all hydrocarbon based stuff on earth with the full knowledge of the really fun discussion in the petroleum world about oil / natural gas being primordial rather than manufactured out of organic materials over time. The organics (coal, for instance) are certainly a source, though not the only one. Additionally, tholins in the outer solar system and on comets end up being hydrocarbon based, which don’t appear to be fossil fuels (nothing alive out there to create fossils). Nomenclature seemed simpler given the current state of understanding of the outer solar system. Am I wrong (more probable than I would like)? Cheers –
You’re quite humorous when your every utterance is taken with the (many) grains of salt of which they are worthy. Just like America’s favorite (NOT) Holiday gift of yore. You’re a fruit cake.
Sorry, this was targeted toward the Ding-a-lingh
Is English your second language?
Tamra. You’re out of your league, persuasion wise. Should we continue supporting wars over oil with our treasure – billions- and lives of our military and the innocent? Do you think the loss or arable land for forever clean sustainable is a bad deal? Do you understand that oil is a finite resource? And poisonous too?
Is it your inability to differentiate possible from impossible (thinking christian myths) that has warped you?