Jerry Merrigan
9:19 - 10:06
“This is a borough-wide issue. I think the revised moratorium language reflects that.”
- Speaker
- Jerry Merrigan
- Timestamp
- 9:19 – 10:06
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 9, 2026
From the transcript
If someone could have a closed-loop system but use seawater as a heat exchanger to cool the closed loop, because if right now I would say if somebody wanted to develop one and they were looking for outside Service Area 1, they would just go to where there's power and close to the water and a road, and that would be Papke's Landing that already has an antenna right in the middle of it, and that would seem like a really compounding problems there. So this is a borough-wide issue. I think the revised moratorium language reflects that. Um, I know the utility director is working on a large-scale ordinance, and that of course would apply to the entire electric grid, which is also outside Service Area 1 in part. And but there seems to be a policy decision embedded in that ordinance, whether you like it or not.
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