After signing onto a global climate change compact in September, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly rescinded its signature Tuesday night.
With the majority of assembly members agreeing that the Alaska Coastal Communities Global Climate Change Compact could do more harm than good for the Kenai Peninsula and its economy, the assembly passed a resolution, six to three, to remove the borough's name from the compact.
The climate change agreement calls for Alaska's coastal communities to collaborate on "strong and immediate action" to combat human-induced global climate change. Some assembly members said they worry that the compact covertly supports cap and trade legislation being discussed in Washington.
The compact states that its signatories agree to "utilize a significant portion of the proceeds from national cap-and-trade legislation, carbon tax, or other sources to fund initiatives in Alaska."
"If you take a closer reading, I think it is implicit. How would we take immediate action? Does that not harken to Waxman-Markey [a cap and trade bill]?" assembly member Gary Superman said. "And if it harkens to something else, what is that? I don't know what the return would be to this community if this [signing the compact] did go down, but I know what the loss would be."
It's about freakin' time. Despite the enviro-weenies' cry, people here are waking up to the attempted hijacking of the economy. We can't afford it, and Alaskans are saying "NO" in growing numbers.
There's hope for us yet, folks.
2 comments:
Did you know there is going to be a natl. Tea Party conference in Nashville Feb.6th? Wouldn't it be fun to go to that. They adopted Ray Stevens song "We the People" as the theme song.
Wow... backbone in the government... you guys sure you're part of the US? I thought the general concensus was to bend over and take it from the feds... I need to import some of that spine down the coast a little ways!
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