“It was one of the most significant shakers I’ve seen in 40 years.” The earthquake hit just as Anchorage was beginning its day, causing widespread damage, derailing plans and snarling traffic.
Elizabeth Harball, Alaska's Energy Desk
Climate change will cost Alaska hundreds of millions per year, report finds
One of the report’s authors said the dollar figures don’t capture the large disparity between climate change’s cost to urban and rural Alaska.
ConocoPhillips executive: more land around Teshekpuk Lake should be available for drilling
His statements come a week after the Trump administration announced it is overhauling the management plan for the 22-million-acre Reserve where Teshekpuk Lake is located, a decision spurred by a series of recent large oil discoveries in the region.
An unexpected agency weighs in on offshore Arctic oil drilling: NASA
In April, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center sent a letter to BOEM estimating that 70 rocket parts have landed in the Beaufort Sea since the 1960s. The agency’s concern, it wrote, “is that future oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea could result in the need to protect additional persons and property when conducting launch operations.”
Trump administration moves to open environmentally sensitive National Petroleum Reserve land to oil drilling
The Interior department today announced it is beginning the environmental review process to re-do the management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or NPR-A, kicking off what could be Alaska’s next big environmental controversy.
Shrugging off lawsuit, Trump administration forges ahead with offshore Arctic drilling proposal
If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is going to hold an oil lease sale in the Beaufort Sea in 2019, the environmental review process needs to start now.