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RESOLUTION #28-09
Title: Support for Angoon's Renewable Energy Developments
WHEREAS, Southeast Alaska has abundant energy resources which are untapped,
and where there is beginning to emerge Native corporation and Native
community ownership of these resources; and
WHEREAS, Angoon pays some of the highest energy costs in Southeast Alaska;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Angoon and Kootznoowoo Inc. have developed and
signed an Angoon Energy Plan which identifies priorities and goals
including a plan to reduce the cost of energy for Angoon through the
development of renewable energy; and
WHEREAS, the Angoon Community Association has provided strong letters of
support tc Kootznoowoo Inc. to develop and construct Thayer- Lake
Hydroelectric to its full potential and as the community's top energy
priority, and
WHEREAS, Kootznoowoo Inc. has successfully completed the eiivironmental
work and record of decision necessary to secure a permit to construct
an environmentally sound run of river hydroelectric project in Angoon
in a Wilderness Monument; and
WHEREAS, Kootzn.00woo Inc. has received grants and is developing the Thayer
Lake hydroelectric facility that it was granted rights to develop under
ANILCA, and
WHEREAS, The City of Angoon has filed on two FERC hydropower permits:
Ruth Lake and Scenery Lake to develop and bring low cost
hydropower to all communities of Southeast Alaska,
WHEREAS, there are important rural Alaska areas which are energy rich, but do
not benefit from harnessing these energy sources due to irsuf icient or
missing transmissio, assets, and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Grand Camp of Alaska
Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood wholly supports the leadership of the
Kootznoowoo Inc. and the City of Angoon for claiming and developing energy
resources under Native leadership and Native ownership whereby Angoon is
seeking energy self determination for their Native community, for diesel
generation communities and for generations to follow.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Grand President and the Executive
Committee urge the federal government through the Department of Energy, the
Department of Agriculture, the Department of Interior and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; the State of Alaska and Southeast Conference to support
Native leadership and development of hydropower projects at Thayer Lake,
Scenery Lake and Ruth Lake for the benefit of all Southeast Alaskans by reducing
green house gas emissions, by creating jobs in rural Southeast Alaska and by
lowering the energy costs that Southeast Alaskan citizens pay to heat and fuel their
homes, schools, and_businesses. ;
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ATTEST: I certify that this resolution was adopted by the ANB Grand Camp
Executive Committee on October 15, 2009
ANB GrandSecretary