What I think needs to happen, is that the people need to become pro-active, and start creating their own alternative energy, and their own alternative energy businesses, to help others become truly energy independent. WE need to take care of OUR energy needs, and NOT EXPECT THEM TO DO THAT!!! Don’t buy their gas, because once you do, you’ll be hooked into a system, that will raise the prices. That’s what they always do. It starts out cheap, but after you’ve purchased the new gas burning stoves, the new piping, and the new gas water heaters, etc, that’s when they raise the prices.

Most people here, seem to support gas/oil development, because they think it means cheap fuel, and more jobs, but neither is true. I’ve only seen lonly a few locals working on the Northfork pad, and those jobs were temporary. Sure, there’s a couple of rich folks, with businesses, who got lots richer, from alliances with the gasholes, but I’m not seeing locals getting permanent jobs. So, why, why, why, would we sell out the last pristine place in this country, for the outside chance of getting a few temporary jobs, for drilling finite, non-renewable energy sources, that pollute??? That’s insanity! If you’ll start researching online, you’ll discover, that gas development (mainly fracking, which shoots hundreds of chemicals, into the subsurface rocks, to break them up, so that gas and oil are more accessible), has permanently destroyed pristine water aquifers, all across this country, and there’s no known way to clean them, once they’re ruined. Water is a finite resource, meaning once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. The gasholes are destroying tons of water aquifers daily!!! An article in the ADN said they frack a quarter of the wells here, and I wonder if that includes older wells, that have slowed down, and need a “refresh” it, by fracking it?

I’d also like to say, that there are lots of non-Homer locals, who would love to see these guys leave. Not all Anchor Pointers are pro-gas/oil, and instead of talking about how we’re different, we need to come together, to stop this. I think we should tar and feather the frackers, and put them on a slow boat to China, with all those foreign oysters perma-glued to their butts! I’d make the drive, into town, for something like that…lol.