"Wilderness Society"

Shell’s announcement left the state wondering what to blame—low oil prices? Tough regulations? Better prospects elsewhere? The full story is complex.

“Perhaps Congress will now think better of its decision to encumber the King Cove road project with a NEPA requirement,” Judge H. Russell Holland wrote.

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has revised their proposed hydraulic fracking regulations again.

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is the 800-mile long backbone of the state’s energy infrastructure.

Pew wants a fleet of ice-capable vessels, Arctic-hardened pipelines and tanks, and solid consultation with local people.

AVCP, a coalition of 56 Native villages in the Y-K Delta, has opposed the would-be road through the wilderness for years.

Two years after executives told lawmakers the company could pump one million barrels into TAPS a day, it isn’t even close to serious production.

On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management released a draft plan identifying 50 of these so-called “legacy wells” for clean up.