Alaska Native Corporations

May 24 2019
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Major planned North Slope oil project gets key federal permit

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

Papua New Guinea-based company Oil Search announced Thursday it received a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers for its Pikka development, planned west of Prudhoe Bay.

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Mar 27 2019
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Bernadette Demientieff, director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, waits to testify at a U.S. House hearing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Which Native voices? On ANWR, lawmakers practice selective listening.

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arctic, Economy, Energy & Mining, Environment, Federal Government, Interior, Nation & World, North Slope, Politics, Subsistence, Wildlife

Rep. Don Young told his colleagues to disregard the anti-drilling Gwich’in witnesses, while pro-development Iñupiaq witnesses accused Democrats of erasing them from the land that’s been their home for centuries.

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Mar 20 2019
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As Trump administration contemplates drilling in Arctic waters, North Slope organizations stress need to protect subsistence resources

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Economy, Energy & Mining, Federal Government, Local Government, Nation & World, Subsistence

In public comments made available on a federal site, most North Slope institutions didn’t express outright opposition to the plan. But they did voice concern for subsistence resources and hunters’ continued access to them.

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Mar 18 2019
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New House Tribal Affairs Committee aims to advance state relationships

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Southeast, Southwest, State Government

Because the Alaska state government’s relationship with tribes cuts across many different state departments, House lawmakers decided to have one committee that would attend to the full range of tribal affairs.

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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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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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