
Homer Electric Board members should ask themselves how willing they are to risk our local and regional economies, by irreversibly industrializing the headwaters of the Kenai River with multiple hydroelectric dams. When they originally proposed five closely clustered hydroelectric projects in 2007, alarms went off in Cooper Landing, Moose Pass and Seward. Besides being invaded by speculators now known by colorful names, and incredibly funded with free public money, residents were incredulous about proposals that were easily recognized to be both irrational and irresponsible. These projects would have imposed dams, reservoirs, intakes, roads, diversions, pipelines, tunnels, powerhouses, and transmission lines upon pristine natural settings. The revered Iditarod National Historic Trail would have suffered multiple impacts. 