Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will be your host: Bill Merk will be here to preview this weekend’s 7th Annual Poetry Grand Slam; We’ll talk with Corinn Canlon about the upcoming Garlic Lover’s Fest; We’ll learn about Perseverance Theatre’s presentation, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Missouri Smyth will…
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Juneau Afternoon – 9-22-17
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Video: Life after the spill
Shrimp fisherman Gordon Scott has seen plenty of changes in his thirty-plus years on the water in Prince William Sound.
Audiogram: The future of an oil state
Today, the trans-Alaska pipeline carries a quarter of what it did in its heyday.
Video: Pipeline boom and bust in rural Alaska
Bob and Jeanne Sunder arrived in Copper Center nearly five decades ago.
Audiogram: Foretold disaster
The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and brought commercial fishing in some of Alaska’s most productive waters to a standstill.
Video: Oil clues hidden in stone
If you’re looking for oil, it helps to have an idea about the geologic formations below the Earth’s surface.
Audiogram: Alaska’s great recession
In 1986, the price of oil tanked. Thousands of people left the state.
Video: Eyes on the pipeline
Adam Owen is responsible for 100 miles of the largest piece of infrastructure in Alaska.
Audiogram: How Alaska decided to give its oil wealth to everyone in the state
In Alaska, we don’t pay income tax. We don’t pay sales tax. But once a year every man, woman and child gets a cut of the state’s oil wealth.