Fossil fuels are going to be around as long as the politicians in the state are making money from them. When you have scenario's that allow the principles of the state's largest coal mine buying a power plant in Fairbanks, and then signing long term contracts with itself there is political interest in profiting from a blatant conflict of interest. Yet the technology for cleaner burning natural gas has been intentionally ignored for the past 40+ years as profits, and hypocrisy  fill the halls of our Capital.