Blog: Dermot Cole
Looking for Christmas light displays
Published Thursday, December 18, 2008
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DELAYED:There is word today that the EPA won't announce the boundaries of the "nonattainment" air pollution area for Fairbanks until Monday.
The announcement had been expected today, but the federal agency has delayed it until next week.
The borough now expects that Eielson will be excluded, a key exclusion for future development of that base.
But the area will be big enough, probably ranging from North Pole to Ester and north to Fox and the Goldstream Valley.
NO EASY FIX: The cost of power from the North Pole generators is now about nine cents per kilowatt hour. That is about what GVEA would expect from power produced by the dormant Healy coal plant.
Oil prices may shoot back up again. Then again, they may be low for a while. We don't know.
The key issue is that a state agency with a board controlled by the Palin administration is suing GVEA over the plant. There are no winners in this lawsuit.
The governor should get all the parties together and lead us to a solution. It makes no sense to have the state in court fighting the interests of the Interior residents who are members of GVEA.
If the governor wants to apportion blame to the state agency and GVEA, that would be OK too.
There's a house on Davis Rd that, every year, has an incredible display of lighted reindeer. I don't know the address, but it's between University and Peger, on the North side of the road.
There is a gorgeously decorated house after you pass Curry's Corner heading toward Hagelbarger.
There's a very, very nicely decorated house downtown next to the Clay Street Cemetery. You can't really miss it.
If you're having such a hard time finding houses, it makes me wonder if more people are holding off on displays because of the bad economy.
I was thinking the same thing, last night my family and I drove around to look at lights and didnt see many at all. We visited the same neighborhoods we always do and it just seemed that they were all lacking this year. Whats up with that?
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