Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010: The borough began taking applications last week for its wood stove repair and replacement program. “The program is up and operational,” air quality director Glenn Miller said. Applications are available at the borough air quality office on Peger Road. The program is still evolving, and applications [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010: The Borough Clerk last week compiled ballot language for the home heating initiative. Fairbanks North Star Borough voters on Oct. 5 will be asked to vote yes or no on the following statement: “The borough shall not ban, prohibit, or fine residents for the use of [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, July 30, 2010: The Borough Assembly passed a resolution approving the port authority’s plan to purchase Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC and launch a natural gas trucking operation. A separate measure calling for a public vote on the plan narrowly failed. The $250 million project now goes before the Regulatory [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, July 13, 2010: The number of people who heat with wood in the Fairbanks North Star Borough is slowly rising, a new study shows. Researchers called 300 area households last winter and asked a series of questions, mostly regarding home heating habits. They found the number of borough households [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010: Assemblyman Guy Sattley has drafted an ordinance requiring a public vote on the plan to truck liquefied natural gas to Fairbanks, but Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins said delaying the $250 million project is risky. “If we stretch this timeline out,” Hopkins said Thursday at a [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010: A ballot group succeeded in gaining the signatures to put a question to the Fairbanks area voters that, if approved, would reverse new air pollution regulations. A Fairbanks North Star Borough canvassing board approved the signatures last week. The question about whether the borough should be [...]

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ASK A BUILDER By CCHRC Staff The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering some of the many questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: A lot of people are participating in the rebate program to make their home more energy efficient. I was under [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, July 1, 2010: The state is readying a new borrowing program that some municipal governments have shown an interest in tapping to improve energy-efficiency at public buildings. The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. said the program — an account for governments and the university system to borrow for energy-efficiency remodeling [...]

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From The Associated Press, Sunday, June 27, 2010: New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday. The need for new energy development and dangers of climate change topped the agenda at the annual meeting of the [...]

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