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RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL for ALASKA, Inc "LET THE SUN SHINE IN" If you are in Fairbanks December 21st, the sun's heat is a joke. Each square foot would be much by Conrad Hilpert Phd. better heated by a kitchen match. March 21st on the equator on a clear day each Solar power advocates have been telling horizontal square foot receives 358 BTU per hour at ( people that 10% of our electrical energy can come 12:OO noon. All day it gets 2499 BTU or an average of from the sun. When the sun gets hot enough to do 104 BTUIsq. ft./hour for 24 hours. Each square foot this as cheaply as any fossil fuel, nuclear fuel, or of grate area in a modern boiler is not unusual at hydropower we will all be burned to a crisp. 1,000,000 BTUlsq. ft.1hour for 24 hours, not only 21 As an example, people can lay out in the March and 21 September, but ALL DAY, EVERY brightest sun for hours and get only tanned. The DAY, RAIN, SHINE, EVEN MIDNIGHT. sun's energy is real nice. These same people would The solar collector needs to be 10,000 times the BOX 516 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 9951 be instantly vaporized in afurnace of asteam power size of the steam boiler's furnace! Now, if we allow 0 March 1981 plant. for some rainy days and dust and reflector This brings to clear view the concept of how efficiency, the solar collector is more like 200,000 much bigger the solar collectors need to be to times as big as the furnace of equivalent capacity. become a close equivalent of a steam boiler. Not (The steam boiler is about the same capacity in any just many times, but many thousands of times! case.) Llewellyn King, publisher of The Energy Daily and Metals Daily, influential ahead," says Easley. A mining committee of the Resource trade journals relating to the energy industry and mining, will present the Development Council has written a new set of coal Easley added that the Resource Development guest address at the annual meeting of the Resource Development Council. leasing regulations that will be submitted to the Council-sponsored Alaska Coal Marketing Alaska Department of Natural Resources, with a Conference in January, which drew more than 400 The meeting will be held April 10, at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage. recommendation for adoption, it was announced participants, highlighted three things. King, headquartered in Washington, D.C. is originally from Zimbabwe- today by Paula Easley, Council executive director. First, there is a growing worldwide demand for Rhodesia, but has been involved in the international press scene since 1959, "The draft regulations being circulated by DNR coal, and Alaska's resources are being seriously first in London and then out of New York. are just a rehash of previous drafts, and still don't examined. Second, most major coal sales contracts He has worked for the United Press,Time Magazine, the New York Herald- meet the needs of the coal industry," according to affecting the next 20-25 years could be Tribune, Washington Daily News, Washington Post, and several Fleet Street Easley. "We think ours would." consummated within the next two years. And, third. (London) publications. "For example, the DNR draft states that the Alaska's environmental and economic regulations After working with energy subjects for McGraw Hill Publishing Company Commissioner of Natural Resources may choose governing coal development must be clear and concise. in New York, he began his own series of energy reports, first weekly and then either a cash bonus, royalty share, or net profit daily, in 1973. share, or combination thereof, as a bid variable, "Because the draft state regulations leave when coal lands are leased. The Council has room for doubt as to how the industry will be treated King will discuss energy, and its implications for the next decade, in the changed this to cash bonus, only," Easley said. in the future, and because of a desire to help the global sense, at the Resource Development Council meeting. Another important area is royalty payment for state rapidly resolve the coal regulation issue, the The annual meeting will elect a statewide slate of directors, an executive mined coal. The DRN draft says not less than five per Council brought together known experts to re-draft committee and new officers for the coming year. Also position papers cent. "This leaves an opening, theoretically, of 95 the regulations. They are being forwarded direct to concerning many important Alaskan topics will be presented for approval. Commissioner Bob LeResche," Easley stated. per cent," Easley stated. "This is ridiculous, and Those planning to attend the Resource Development Council's annual only creates uncertainty. The Council recommends Persons interested in reviewing the Council's meeting are urged to make reservations by calling 278-9615. a royalty of no more than six per cent. If the state proposed regulations are urged to contact the adopts this, then potential coal operators can plan Resource Development Council, 278-9615. The Associated General Contractors (Alaska Facilities, of being too slow in letting nearly $1 Chapter) have taken a unique approach to solve a billion in contracts. A subsequent audit has nearly $2 billion-dollar problem facing the State of revealed the figure is closer to $2 billion. 0 0 U.S. POSTAGE Alaska and especially the construction industry and DOTPF, a conglomeration of the old those depending on it. Departments of Highways and Public Works, was Box 516, Anchorage, Alaska 99510 ANCHORAGE. They have placed Woodrow Johansen, a well- created in the first administration of Gov. Jay ALASKA , respected highway engineer (retired from the old Hammond. It has been a controversial department, Alaska Department of Highways) in a position with first headed by Walter Parker, now a private ADDRESS CHANGE the House of Representatives (the Democratic consultant many times to the state, and since by REQUESTED majority) to untangle the problem of approved, Robert Ward. State Ombudsman Frank Flavin Return Postage Guaranteed many times funded, but yet to go to bid, projects. recently scathed the department for misuse of bond AGC will be supplying his salary, less $1 a year funds used to support another Hammond priority, provided by the Legislature. Johansen will be an the Alaska Public Forum. , official "troubleshooter" representing the House Flavin ruled that bond funds could not be used Democrats. His contract is officially with House except for the purposes for which they were Speaker Jim Duncan. approved and sold. The AGC in a recent meeting in Juneau, accused The AGC, publicly backed by the Resource the Department of Transportation and Public Development Council, has asked Gov. Hammond to Continued next page , personally untangle the contract problems at 'no'growth" attitudes within the administration E TO RENEW RESOURCE DOTPG. In a memorandum to Hammond, prepared at These critics have accused the administration I his request by Lt. Gov. Terry Miller, Miller stated the of playing loose with private needs, while the REVIEW SUBSCRIPTIONS A problems result from lack of organization within government is wallowing in excess wealth, created .) DOTPF. Others have said the problem is a result of by the sale of state-owned resources. 1 BERSHIPS s *ooo***oo.oo~oeoo.oooao.o In a recent address to the Resource that food stamps have had in some remote villages. Development Council, at a regular Thursday "Prior to the initiation of food stamps, many of Corporate 1 Business morning breakfast session, newly-elected Alaska the villagers depended on subsistence hunting and Senator Frank Murkowski made the following fishing to provide them with the food and cash they observation concerning America's dependence on needed for necessities. With the introduction of food Two categories of membership are available to businesses which include all publications and service: government. stamps, some of the need for subsistence efforts "At one time our people were known for their dramatically declined, because (for some people) (1) Sustaining: $100 to $2,000 (maximum) per month payable monthly, quarterly or annually independence. Now unfortunately, we have government is now providing the necessities. The spawned generation after generation that has cash comes in from various welfare distributions. (2) Supporting: $100 to $1,200 per year, payable annually become dependent on government. They would have been better off had food stamps "An example of this is a story related by never been introduced. Truly a tragedy of the 'Great Alaskan native leaders, commenting on the effect Society'." Three categories of membership are available to individuals. Members in first two categories receive all membership privileges, are placed on priority mailing list and encouraged to participate in Red Alert Secretary of Interior James Watt has named confirmation, also oppose Buford, who has been Robert Buford, a Colorado rancher and legislator, to running cattle on federal grazing leases in his native campaigns: direct the Bureau of Land Management. state. Buford has transferred his grazing permit to a (1) Sustaining: $25 (or more) per month includes monthly Resource Review In announcing his choice of Buford, Watt said, grown son. The financial sacrifice Bob Buford is willing to The Bureau of Land Management is a major (2) Subscribing: $55 (or more) per year includes monthly Resource Review make to join government service is incredible. After factor in the federal presence in Alaska. It is a nominee goes through the conflict-of-interest responsible for managing lands, and for (3) Supporting: $ 5 to $40 per year requirements imposed by law, he feels like a transferring lands to Native Corporations, the State 'plucked chicken'." of Alaska and others. It is also the major wildfire -1 Preservationists, who strongly opposed Watt's control agency in Alaska.
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