Assembly Member Asks State to Further Investigate Climate Change

Author: KSRM News Desk |

At the October 14 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting a resolution on climate change and ocean acidification was introduced.

 

South Peninsula Assembly Member Mako Haggerty created the resolution.

 

He said in 2007 the State of Alaska had created a climate task force to investigate impacts of climate change in Alaska and released recommendations in 2009.

 

Haggerty: “There were a number of recommendations that came out and that was the issue that we discussed tonight, was that those recommendations  were not included in the package, it was a legitimate complaint. However, none of those recommendations were acted upon, so what I would like to see the state do is reconvene the task force and see if those recommendations were even accurate, they made not have been accurate, but if they were or theres something else we should be aware of, urge the state to act on it.”

 

Kelly Wolf debated the relevance of the resolution without those recommendations and requested postponement until October 28 which was denied.

 

The resolution was amended by Haggerty.

 

Haggerty: “I would like to make some changes in section 1 and section one will read that the Kenai Peninsula Borough acknowledges risk posed by climate change and ocean acidification, urges the state of Alaska to reconvene the climate change task force, and implement the task forces recommendations.” 

 

Ultimately it passed 5-3, the no voters were Wolf, Dale Bagley, and Charlie Pierce.

 

To read more about ocean acidification, click here for KSRM’s Ocean Acidification series.

 

 

 

 

 

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