Energy & Mining

Richard Parmelee warms his house with vegetable oil, donated by a local Chinese restaurant and McDonalds.

Regulated utilities benefiting from the corporate tax cut should share the wealth with Alaska ratepayers. That’s the argument made by the Attorney General’s office in a recent filing to state regulators.

The state will still have a $2.3 billion gap between what it spends and what it raises. Lawmakers from the two majorities in the Legislature had different responses to the news.

These cash-for-credits recipients used to be kept confidential, but a law passed in 2016 now requires that the state report them.

The Yes for Salmon initiative reports it received close to 42,000 signatures, significantly more than required. But a vote on the issue isn’t guaranteed.

“It’s such a pleasure to hear them squeal and squall on the other side, after they stick it to us all those years with Sally Jewell,” Congressman Young said of Democrats on the House Resources Committee.

“I definitely think it’s possible to have a unified voice but it’s never going to be truly unified unless all entities that were invited to the table take advantage of it,” Utqiaġvik Mayor Fannie Suvlu said.

More than 30 representatives met recently at the Tulalip Indian Reservation, between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.

What the state owes in tax credit payouts varies wildly from year to year. By paying off the tax credit debt with bonds, the repayment rate would theoretically become predictable.

Energy infrastructure is a tempting target for hackers, and the trans-Alaska pipeline is no exception. Alyeska, which operates the pipeline, now ranks cyberattacks as one of its top three risks.