Arctic

Feb 20 2019
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ASRC, after backing Dunleavy’s campaign, blasts his oil tax redistribution plan

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Economy, Energy & Mining, North Slope, State Government

ASRC president and CEO Rex Rock Sr. said: “Trying to balance a state budget on the backs of the Iñupiat people across the Arctic Slope is a wrongsided attack on our region.”

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Feb 19 2019
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With winter snow trails, North Slope Borough hopes to offer residents a safe path over tundra

By | Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Community, Economy, Local Government, North Slope, Transportation

“Near-deaths and freezing, running out of gas are some of the issues surrounding being able to go between communities,” said Gordon Brower, director of the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.

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Feb 13 2019
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How Alaska school districts planned to spend that $20 million

By | 2 Alaska, Aleutians, Arctic, Education, Interior, Juneau, North Slope, Northwest, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest, State Government, Western

Gov. Michael Dunleavy proposed doing away with $20 million in education funding approved by the Legislature in 2018. Superintendents and lawmakers say school districts were counting on that money, and many have already started spending it.

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Feb 13 2019
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U.S. Air Force ‘barren lands’ survival course teaches how to stay alive in Arctic wilderness

By | Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Environment, Military, North Slope

Survival course trainees are exposed to subzero temperatures and winds that gust up to 30-plus miles an hour. “They don’t go back inside after they come out here and begin the training,” said instructor Sgt. Garrett Wright.

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Feb 13 2019
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Alaska Native issues feature prominently at hearing on Arctic Refuge oil leasing

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Energy & Mining, Federal Government

Throughout the hearing, an organized group of opponents from communities across the state provided much of the public testimony against development in the refuge, holding up bandannas and signs that said: “Defend the Sacred: Protect the Arctic.”

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Feb 08 2019
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With spring whaling around the corner, sinew thread makers are hard at work

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Arts & Culture, North Slope, Subsistence

“Everything just falls into place,” says Nancy Leavitt of the hard work involved in sinew thread making. “The problems, the stress, the thoughts you have. Most of them just disappear.”

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Feb 02 2019
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski hosted an Arctic round-table in the Senate Energy Committee room on Jan. 24, 2019. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)

Calls for ‘vigilance’ on Russian military buildup in Arctic

By | Arctic, Federal Government, Military, Nation & World, National News, Oceans

Moscow has been building its military presence in the Arctic, and one Russia scholar says she’s grown increasingly concerned. While Russia’s Arctic ambitions worry regional experts, so do the lack of ambitions on the part of the United States.

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Jan 30 2019
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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420 ft. icebreaker homeported in Seattle, Wash., breaks ice in support of scientific research in the Arctic Ocean.

‘Uber for icebreakers’ idea gains traction in Congress

By | Arctic, Economy, Federal Government, Military, Nation & World, North Slope, Oceans, Politics, Transportation

A Senate proposal has $750 million for a third Coast Guard icebreaker, but that money is caught in a fight over President Trump’s wall at the southern border. Still, there’s more than one way to break ice.

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High wind warning (downtown Juneau and Douglas) through noon Saturday
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