Peltola sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Tuesday asking her to approve the Willow project, a proposed oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
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Last remaining private bidder from 2021 ANWR lease sale pulls out
Knik Arm Services owner Mark Graber said it no longer felt worth it to hold onto the lease amid the legal battles.
Harry Potter Lake, once too big to see across, vanished in a day
Drained lake basins make up more than half of the Arctic coastal plain, the part of the Alaska map that most resembles Swiss cheese.
Fairbanks man’s rafting trip turns into wilderness COVID ordeal
Seventy-seven-year-old David Hamilton says the situation demonstrated the value of medevac insurance.
After lawsuit, a major Alaska North Slope oil project is again moving forward
Members of the public have until 10 p.m. Aug. 29 to state their support for one of five options for the project’s future.
Alaska’s majority-Native districts had uneven voter turnout in 2020, analysis finds
The majority Yup’ik Yukon-Kuskokwim Census Area of southwestern Alaska posted a 75% turnout rate in 2020, topping those of all county or county equivalents where Indigenous residents comprise at least half of the voting-age population, according to the analysis.
Only oil company that bid for ANWR tract gives up its lease
Regenerate Alaska, a unit of Australia-based 88 Energy Ltd., relinquished the tract it acquired for over $770,000, federal officials said.
Biden administration reverses Trump-era plan to open most of NPR-A to drilling
The BLM says the decision still leaves nearly 12 million acres available for oil and gas leasing. That’s slightly more than 50% of the NPR-A. The Trump administration had wanted closer to 80% open to drilling.
Will Alaska oil production get a boost from high prices? Not likely, says this industry observer.
With oil above $100 a barrel, some Alaskans have wondered: Will companies now be drilling for more oil here?
ConocoPhillips says it’s still trying to find the source of North Slope gas leak
Officials with ConocoPhillips are still trying to determine the source of an ongoing natural gas leak reported at a North Slope oil drill site earlier this month.