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By Kassie Andrews — August 6, 2024
“Alaska’s Comprehensive Sustainable Energy Action Plan is a kleptocracy. The people behind it are taking advantage of decades of hard work by Alaskans and they no longer trust sensible, moral, logical, civic-minded people. We the people must speak out.
Officially titled “Meeting the Requirements of Prioritized Climate Action Plans for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program,” Alaska's Panhandle green lobby is winning at the expense of the state's native resources and natural wealth. However, shining a bright light on this alien takeover can stop this takeover.
background
Under the combined efforts of Governor Dunleavy, life for Alaska conservatives has been filled with disappointment. In order to fulfill its commitment to comply with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Alaska Standards), his administration submitted the Alaska Priority Sustainable Energy Action Plan (PSEAP) to the US Environmental Protection Agency in March 2024. The Inflation Reduction Act brought us Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) funding.
On July 22, 2024, EPA announced: “EPA has announced the selection of applications to receive more than $4.3 billion in climate pollution reduction grants to implement community-driven solutions to address the climate crisis, reduce air pollution, and advance environmental justice. and accelerate clean development in America.” Energy transition. “
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Alaska Municipal League, led by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), will “undertake a greenhouse gas emissions inventory.” [produced by Constellation Energy, “a leader in the clean energy transition”]working with tribal governments to conduct parallel planning efforts, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and develop PSEAP and CSEAP.
CSEAP (Comprehensive Sustainable Energy Action Plan) is the second phase of the plan, and the report states that “the country recognizes that there is a more substantive task to develop a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) in the coming year. do, and this effort requires a more detailed analysis and thorough review of opportunities to reduce climate pollution.
Currently, 45 states have climate action plans. States choosing to block the climate-industrial complex include Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Why Alaska?
Alaska’s emissions are miniscule, less than one-tenth of total U.S. emissions [1] In short, the plan is about how we need to respond to ostensibly lower our carbon footprint, as if it were a valid concern, the report states
Ultimately, nearly every federal grant opportunity currently available cites the need to advance carbon reduction programs. The State will evaluate individual opportunities as well as CPRG investments to maximize leverage.
Statewide greenhouse gas emissions are tabulated, and not surprisingly, industrial emissions from natural gas and transportation emissions from jet fuel top the list. Alarmingly, the voting public still has no shortage of desire to address inflation and reduce federal debt, challenging the many tentacles of the climate-industrial complex’s degrowth agenda.
Emissions strategy
Initial emissions reduction strategies include climate aid, accelerated “beneficial electrification” through heat pumps, solid waste methane capture, an electric vehicle power supply installation plan, a $100 million “Solar for All” program and increasing the existing renewable energy fund by another 1 One hundred million U.S. dollars.
Also includes carbon capture, utilization and storage. Referring to the Alaska Legislature regarding the carbon offset plan passed in 2023, the direct metric listed is “the number of carbon emission reduction projects being developed and recognized on state lands” and the secondary metric is “the construction of electric vehicle charging stations” .
The carbon credit scheme is a sham and the largest certifier, Verra, the world's leading certifier, is in trouble with over 90% of its offset credits being essentially worthless. World Economic Forum partners Vera and Anew were invited to Juneau to provide expert testimony on carbon offset legislation. The Legislature learned of Vera's fraud during public testimony on the bill, but the bill passed 58-2.
Target
The plan’s goals include leveraging federal funds for “impactful transformation,” delivering “equitable benefits,” “significantly diversifying generation,” and to reduce its carbon footprint, “the nation is focusing on key sectors such as transportation and energy production. “This contributes significantly to emissions. “
The plan has 17 goals, including:
- Promote and export technology and process innovation related to carbon emission reduction and storage.
- Increase and promote career development opportunities that help solve carbon emissions reduction issues, including engineering, architecture and design, business and entrepreneurship.
- Identify ways to reduce fugitive emissions and increase carbon capture, utilization storage and sequestration. (Legislation to be passed in 2024)
- Improving power generation efficiency in the rail belt through regional system operators and economic dispatch. (Central Plan adopted in 2024 and discussed here)
- Prepare for and facilitate the rapid transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and low-carbon fuels for transport; this includes providing the necessary EV charging infrastructure, as well as the bulk procurement of shared EVs.
- Establish a green bank to develop state-led long-term financing of clean energy and energy efficiency. (Legislation to be passed in 2024)
Coincidentally, three of the key targets also happen to be Governor Dunleavy’s 2024 “energy” bill priorities.
sneak through
Central planners simply did not care what the public thought of these plans. There was no public consultation on the plan. , as stated in Program Elements and Points:
PSEAP is a preliminary analysis of Alaska’s climate pollution reduction potential and corresponding mitigation measures. DEC expects a more thorough review during the comprehensive planning process, including active stakeholder participation and public consultation.
The plan goes on to note that plans for future participation are listed in another section (Section 7), and there is no separate mention of public input there, although they will “complete a benefit analysis of the full geographic scope and population covered by the plan.” They are so nice.
Keyword statistics found:
- Climate 51
- Vulnerable groups-78
- Carbon 89
- CO2-90
- Justice 15
- Affordability/affordability-15
- reliable/reliable-11
- Sustainable Development-48
“Sustainability”
The governor likes to use that term. Its best application is in an economic system that offers the most free market capitalism while providing environmental protection through private property rights (see here). But as the code name for the Green New Deal plan, it means government command and control.
““Sustainable development” is the new and perfect word to promote the unconstitutional United Nations global “sustainable” development goals (SDGs). According to the American Policy Center, it's a trigger word for us to voluntarily surrender our freedoms to government control, which won't be easy as seen in the billions of dollars states are pouring into meeting climate goals. thing.
Sustainability in today's world and in the vast majority of corporate plans is about establishing new governance and really just sending a signal to our overlords that we are willing and supportive of their plans to achieve the SDGs – and to achieve this The only way to target is by rationing and growth regression.
SDG Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This simply means redistribution. Everyone will be equally poor. less Everything for everyone (except the elite).
SDG Goal 7: Affordable clean energy for all.
When it comes to energy, we are systematically using unreliable energy sources, commonly known as windmills and solar panels. You can't provide energy to everyone using a supply source less energy, so the result would be less Energy for everyone, more revenue for you less through debt and inflation.
When thinking about what the word “sustainability” really means and where we go next, the rule of thumb is Climate change overrides all other considerations. Politicians, bureaucrats and corporate pirates have inserted the word “sustainability” into every possible state and corporate function. In an elaborate game of subverting the representative republic, this relegates Alaska and the U.S. Constitution to a subunit of the United Nations.
CSEP: next steps
The Integrated Sustainable Energy Action Plan concludes:
Alaska is expected to move quickly from PSEAP to CSEAP, recognizing that a comprehensive planning process will provide opportunities to advance more granular greenhouse gas emissions and corresponding mitigation measures.
As this report is only preliminary, national authorities will advance sectoral workshops on emissions, the outcomes of which will include “setting sectoral greenhouse gas reduction targets and identifying additional and improved greenhouse gas reduction measures.” To maintain eligibility for federal climate funds, states need to develop detailed CSEAPs with specific emissions reduction targets.
Since interested “stakeholders” are not defined and prioritized in the plan, it is unclear how the state will include the public in the comment process. As more and more local governments adopt climate action plans, the public engagement box is likely to have been ticked.
Alaska’s Comprehensive Sustainable Energy Action Plan is not an energy plan, it is a kleptocracy plan. The people behind this are taking advantage of decades of hard work by Alaskans and they no longer believe that sensible, moral, logical, civic-minded people are at the helm (they are not).
The new guard is counting on us to do nothing. But we have to show up and speak out. they must know us Know what they are doing. Recall the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
We know they're lying, they know they're lying, they even know we know they're lying, we know they know we know they're lying, of course they know we know of course they know we know they're lying too, but they Still lying. In our country, lies are no longer just a moral category, but a pillar industry of this country.
Now you Know.
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[1] In 2022, Alaska's total CO2 emissions were 41 million tons, while the United States' total CO2 emissions were 6,343 mm, or less than one-tenth of one percent (0.0065). Globally, Alaska accounts for about one hundredth of the total (36,100 mmt).
Kassie Andrews is a principal at MasterResource, focusing on Alaska energy policy.
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