ADN, by Don Hunter.  Mayor Dan Sullivan has appointed a nine-member task force to study energy problems he says lie ahead for the city.  … "The energy situation in Southcentral Alaska is one of the most pressing issues that we as a city have to deal with," Sullivan said in an e-mailed statement Friday morning. … Sullivan’s statement today says the city came "dangerously close to failing to meet the needs of its gas customers the past few winters when temperatures dipped below zero."

The members of the task force are:

• Judy Brady, former executive director of the Alaska Oil & Gas Association

• Steve Pratt, energy consultant

• Bill Popp, president and CEO of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp.

• Tony Izzo, co-chair of TMi Consulting and a former CEO of natural gas company Enstar

• Dan Coffey, Anchorage Assembly member

• Arden Page, mediator and attorney

• Mary Ann Pease, MAP Consulting

• Bob Stinson, president of Conam Construction Co.

• Dave Harbour, former member of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.