Comment: Just imaging what would happen to free enterprise — and even national defense activity — in Alaska if the presumptive Democrat nominee were to become President. -dh
FROM: THE HILL.
SIERRA CLUB BACKS CLINTON: The Sierra Club on Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Michael Brune, the group’s executive director, said in a statement that Clinton “will be the strong environmental champion that we need to lead our country,” handing the former secretary of State her second major environmental endorsement of the week.
“The Sierra Club, like so many Americans, not only wants to protect President Obama’s legacy — we want to expand it,” Brune added.
The Sierra Club — like billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer — waited to endorse Clinton until after she had wrapped up a Democratic presidential nomination fight with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The group said Sanders ran a “hard-fought campaign” that “helped elevate climate change and protecting our environment while reducing inequality as key issues in the Democratic Primary.”
And the Sierra Club went hard at presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying, “the gap on environmental and climate issues between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump is the largest in U.S. political history.”
Read more here.
Tomorrow in The Hill: Clinton’s endorsement from the Sierra Club is the third from a major environmental interest in the last two weeks.
She’s been racking up green backing, showing in part how scared environmentalists are of a possible Trump presidency.
Read more about greens’ strategy with Clinton endorsements tomorrow in The Hill.
Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School.
Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations.
Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska.
Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power.
He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress.
Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.
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