“We think we’ve got some great challenges right now for them and we hope they’ll pick some up,” said Larry Hinzman, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Energy & Mining
Pebble Mine loses funding from First Quantum Minerals
A major business deal has fallen through for the proposed Pebble Mine. A Canadian mining company, First Quantum Minerals, will no longer back the controversial project.
Transboundary mine meeting includes State Department, B.C. reps
The U.S. State Department has taken a role in the transboundary mine controversy. A representative will be part of an Alaska stakeholders meeting June 1 in Juneau.
This man hopes to bring the gavel down on ANWR drilling
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Arizona, is in line to lead a key committee if the Democrats retake the House. He’s sometimes ranked its most liberal member.
A lot of people get this pretty basic question about oil wrong
“I have had to correct school teachers in the past who have been teaching their kids that oil comes from dinosaurs.”
With Pruitt, Murkowski chides without charring
Democratic senators accused EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Wednesday of betraying the public trust with luxury travel and by cozying up to lobbyists. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski did not ask confrontational questions, but she did not leap to Pruitt’s defense, either.
Alaska LNG project president says he’s done ‘preaching to the non-believers’
The president of the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation says he’s no longer bothering to convince skeptics that the project is real, and it’s moving forward.
Kinder Morgan shareholders hear from pipeline opponents
Demonstrators took to land and sea in British Columbia Wednesday as energy giant Kinder Morgan hosted shareholders at an annual meeting in Texas.
Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale attracts just one company
The state offered 2.6 million acres, but just one company — Hilcorp — bid on 16,636 acres.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry visits the Kodiak Archipelago
Sen. Lisa Murkowski and the U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry hopped on a plane and took a quick detour to the small community of Old Harbor, which has been developing its own renewable resources for decades, but still has a long way to go.