After one year and $5000 from the Haines Borough Assembly, the Haines Energy Task Force (HEFT) has presented their work: a 63 page draft report entitled Peak Oil & Energy Transition, that purports to help prepare Haines for all of the inevitable catastrophes that will happen when there’s not enough oil to go around.

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I’m down to my last cord of dry firewood. We’ve had a cold December and January, a warmer February, and I was just looking forward to spring when I saw this news tidbit on www.dailytech.com:
“All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show [...]

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A few days ago when some folks near Haines, Alaska, saw that a pregnant cow moose had fallen through the Chilkat River ice and couldn’t get out they didn’t just stand and watch. They used ropes, ingenuity and hard work to keep her from drowning and haul her up onto the solid ice.
These guys [...]

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