Originally Published in the Anchorage Daily News on May 22, 2026
Just as Michelangelo’s finger of God reaches toward Adam’s in the Sistine Chapel— close but not yet touching— Alaska now faces a generational energy opportunity. The transformative potential is within reach. What is needed is the will to seize it.
Since Alaska statehood, energy has been the driving factor in redefining the Last Frontier from a wilderness territory to a global icon. The frontier spirit of grit, determination, acceptance of risk, and rugged independence drove a common bond among the pioneers. No truer words were spoken than those that built the trans-Alaska pipeline: “We didn’t know it couldn’t be done.”…