Sustainable North

Title: Fairbanks North Star Borough, I/M and Air Pollution Control Commission Meeting
Location: Borough Assembly Chambers, 809 Pioneer
Description: Report on air quality in the borough. Experts on air quality, health effects and wood burning will be available for questions.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-07-22
End Time: 21:00

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 22, 2008
Golden Valley Electric Association is proposing a 3.4 percent rate increase that would take effect October 2009, pending a yearlong review process through the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newminer July 20, 2008
Home-heating fuel costs $4.69 per gallon, two dollars more than September of last year.
With winter creeping closer, building and energy professionals are busy trying to get Fairbanks energy healthy, and some residents are taking matters into their own hands by attacking energy inefficiencies at home.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 19, 2008
Proponents of a plant that would make liquid fuels out of coal say such a facility could be the solution to high energy costs in Fairbanks and Interior villages.
However, a financial specialist warned that private-sector financing will be hard to find without some government assistance, either as cash, [...]

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Title: Golden Valley Electrical Association Meeting
Location: Carlson Center
Description: The meeting will discuss information on a new cost of service study the utility initiated to ensure that members in different classes are paying their fair share of the utility costs.
Start Time: 06:30
Date: 2008-07-21
End Time: 08:30

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 18 2008
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is crunching numbers to study how much greenhouse gas we emit.
The university’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power is conducting the study using a $20,000 grant from the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
The work will serve as a baseline document needed to responsibly advance [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 15, 2008
High-ranking federal and state officials will be in Fairbanks this week for an energy summit hosted by borough Mayor Jim Whitaker and U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens to fast-track a plant to turn coal and biomass into power, fuel and heat for Interior Alaska.
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BY: Karl Monetti, Northern Alaska Environmental Center
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 16, 2008, Section A3
Have you noticed the “fuel surcharge” on your electric bill lately? I am sure you have. Have you also noticed, and read, the little colored inserts in your electric bill each month? My first tip is to not complain about [...]

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Title: Weeds Gone Wild, An Invasive Plant Workshop and Guided Tour
Location: Old University Park School, Room 108
Description: Information on invasive plants will be presented in the classroom followed by a field trip. If you attend both the workshop and field trip, lunch will be provided. Call Diane Claassen at 474-2428 for more information.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: [...]

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From the Associated Press July 14, 2008
PARIS, Maine - Mark Bancroft’s new pellet-burning furnace hasn’t been installed, but he’s already counting how much money he’ll save over his old oil-fired burner.
Instead of paying $5,000 for 1,100 gallons of heating oil in the coming year based on today’s record prices, he’ll spend $2,000 on about 8 tons [...]

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