Sustainable North

From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 5, 2008
A group of Dillingham, Alaska, fishermen hoping to reduce gas costs for the Bristol Bay fleet are sketching plans to turn salmon waste into fuel.
In Nunam Iqua in Western Alaska, a tiny utility hopes to spin power from the wind electric use will jump when a new school [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News June 24, 2008.

According to university researchers, the poorest families in Alaska’s most remote towns and villages are expected to spend more than 40 cents out of every dollar they make on power and heat in the coming year.

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 8, 2008
ANCHORAGE — Village electric utilities in rural Alaska, panicked over the sky-high cost of fuel arriving on the summer’s first barges, are appealing to the state for help.
The fuel bill for the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, which serves 53 small villages in the west of the state, is [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 7, 2008
A new University of Alaska Anchorage study helps explain why households in some rural Alaska villages pay up to 100 percent more than others for home heating oil.
The study by the university’s Institute of Social and Economic Research was conducted for the Alaska Energy Authority, which is charged [...]

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