North Slope

Mar 18 2019
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An above-ground section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System near the Toolik Lake Research Station in the North Slope Borough. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska's Energy Desk)

State forecasts higher oil prices, lower production in spring update

By | Economy, Energy & Mining, North Slope, Southcentral, State Government

Combined with some other changes, the Alaska Department of Revenue now projects that the state will have $89 million less for this year’s budget. And it will have $39 million more for the 2020 budget that begins in July.

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Mar 12 2019
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Cash-strapped state of Alaska takes aim at North Slope government’s oil money

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Climate Change, Energy & Mining, Local Government, North Slope, Politics, State Government

A proposal by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy would strip the North Slope Borough of its power to collect nearly $400 million in property taxes from oil companies each year. The idea gets at a longstanding question: How much money from oil should stay in the North Slope, where it’s pumped from the ground?

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Mar 05 2019
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State says BP must prove more Prudhoe Bay wells aren’t at risk of ‘catastrophic failure’

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

In a recent order, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission says BP “has no evidence that permafrost subsidence will not result in sudden catastrophic failure” at some of the company’s Prudhoe Bay wells.

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Mar 01 2019
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Taking a ride with the last dog team left in Utqiaġvik

By | Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, North Slope, Outdoors, Sports, Transportation

Alaska is, of course, famous for its sled dog racing, but that’s never been where Geoff Carroll’s interest lies. He’s an expedition guy. In fact, his introduction to mushing was on an expedition to the North Pole in 1986: a 56-day, 1,000 mile trek over sea ice by dogsled.

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Feb 28 2019
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Nuiqsut in June 2018. The village is near a growing number of oil developments in the western Arctic.

North Slope village tribal government sues over ConocoPhillips’ drilling plans

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Crime & Courts, Environment, Federal Government, North Slope

Along with five environmental groups, the Native Village of Nuiqsut is challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ exploratory drilling program this winter in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

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