MondayDate: 5-18-09To:

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Ref: MEA announces piped carbon gas fired power plant plan

ATTN: Anchorage Daily News, Frontiersman, Fairbanks Dialy Newsminer; Letters to the editor



Your MatSu leaders want you to pay for a piped in fossil fueled gas power plant, the piping project, and the piped gas itself, so someone else can charge each of you and your homes more money for the piped gas and carbon charges later just when worldwide carbon taxes will kick in;And at the same time the rest of the world with lightening speed, is investing and going to new technologicaly inteligent and clean water, wind, sun, and thermal generation of electricity for their homes and cars to be all electric.Look, while discussing the 3 to 6 year completion viability of multiple mid sized Hydroelectric River/Tidal below ice surface water flowing and instream electricity generation projects by channeling the river waters, air turbine designs, small breakaway dams, or by floating in movable larger ships with 40 year hull lifespans as housing for electricity generators, we googled a local map view of the Valley, and guess what,The MatSu Valley is located between the Susitna River, the Matanuska River and the worlds 4th largest tide in Cook Inlet; And you want to build a coal or piped gas carbon fired power plant ???Don,t you and your children want to be a part of leading the rest of the world in exciting, clean, and new electricity energy generation and distribution designs, concepts, and technologies for our homes and cars?Sincerely and Respectfully,
Peru says 9 more police killed by Amazon Indians protesting gas, oil explorationCARLA SALAZAR Associated Press Writer4:17 PM EDT, June 6, 2009
Indians block a road as tear gas fired by police smokes behind in Bagua Grande in Peru's northern province of Utcubamba, Friday, June 5, 2009. Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders reporting at least 30 deaths. The violence broke out before dawn as officers tried to end a road blockade by some 5,000 Indians in the northern province of Utcubamba. (AP Photo) (AP / June 5, 2009)LIMA, Peru (AP) —
At least nine Peruvian police officers were killed Saturday as soldiers stormed an oil pumping station in the Amazon where Indian protesters were holding police hostage, the country's defense minister said.The deaths brought to 20 the number of police killed — some with spears — since security forces moved early Friday to break up a roadblock by indigenous Peruvians who oppose government moves to exploit oil and gas and other resources on their lands.Protest leaders said at least 25 Indians, including three children, died in the clashes. Authorities confirmed only five civilian deaths, but said 109 people were injured.
Associated Press writers Tamy Higa in Lima and Frank Bajak in Bogota contributed to this report.