“We know in our minds that it will pass but it doesn’t bring much comfort at the moment,” said the CEO of Alaska's largest oil producer.
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Officials are hopeful having the environmental review complete will attract investors who won't have to shoulder the massive cost borne over the past several years by the major Slope producers and the state.
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"What product would you invent?”
“I want to invent a saliva bank.”
“A what?”
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We proudly present the 2020 Top Forty Under 40.
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Another irreverent take from , this time on civic engagement: 'Apparently, my fellow jurors were all treated with reverence on a semi-regular basis. Many were blatantly ignoring the judge and scrolling through their phones.'
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In 2019 results reported Tuesday morning, spending on capital projects exceeded its net income for the state.
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Spending on earthquake repairs and Defense Dept. projects will recede in 2020, but a jump in oil industry activity will pick up some of the slack
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Weighing in at a hefty 9.5 million lbs, Rig 26 is about to revolutionize drilling on the North Slope for
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The budget for fiscal year 2021 has been released by . It relies on the Constitutional Budget Reserve to fill the gap between govt spending/PFDs and revenue from oil/Permanent Fund.
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Gov. Dunleavy said his administration has “an idea of what Alaskans are willing to tolerate and what they aren’t,” which should help get the 2020 session off to a more productive start. alaskajournal.com/2019-12-04/gov
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The Speaker of the House admonishing more than 100 of the most engaged and educated stakeholders from to “be more informed” while simultaneously distorting their collective position did not go over well. #akleg
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Through the third quarter, has spent $1.2 billion in Alaska compared to $1.07 billion in net income.
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Long impeded by the cost of pipelines either to Canada or Cook Inlet, the latest effort to monetize North Slope gas would have neither.
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Sanctions on Iran and contaminated Russian crude have pushed Alaska North Slope oil prices well past the worldwide Brent index during the past year. alaskajournal.com/2019-08-13/int
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Asst. AG Cori Mills told legislators the administration believes the forward funding of education passed last year would be legal if it called for a transfer on June 30, the last day of the current fiscal year, instead of July 1, the start of the next.
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The Alaska Public Offices Commission dealt a mortal blow to disclosure in the aftermath of the Ballot Measure 1 battle last fall.
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The Homer Electric Association contracts with Furie to supply all of its gas while Enstar has a contract for 20 percent of its supply. Neither have been receiving their contracted amounts for the past two months. alaskajournal.com/2019-04-02/pro
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This Sunday marks a dark anniversary for Alaska, and those in charge of preventing another disaster are working to keep complacency from making a comeback.
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According to a Denver man taking a fresh look at old data, new seismic reprocessing technology provides higher resolution images and can better organize old sound signals that were disrupted by permafrost, which can scramble seismic signals.
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The fuel tariff increases don't account for what it will eventually cost to replace the two cargo terminals that help supply some 90 percent of the consumer goods for the state.
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The state gasline corporation also announced a deal with BP and ExxonMobil on Friday for technical help with the project.
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Following up on the news that the draft environmental impact statement for #aklng has been delayed by four months.
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The release of a draft environmental impact statement for the Alaska LNG Project has been delayed and its current president didn't sound optimistic about its prospects in a briefing to legislators. alaskajournal.com/2019-03-01/ak-
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With the case unlikely to be resolved before the new fiscal year July 1, Gov. Dunleavy's budget includes more than $250 million from the assets of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to pay down some of the tax credit balance.
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Alaska has added nearly 90,000 people to Medicaid in less than four years.
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“With our partners we are all in agreement that there are still some significant resources here; some that we don’t even know," said Vice President of Reservoir Development Fabian Wirnkar, dubbed "Dr. Grow" by BP Alaska President Janet Weiss.
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The increase in the overall catch limit follows a trend of the commission increasing the quotas, despite warnings from the IPHC researchers that the halibut surveys indicate that the stock is decreasing.
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The first half 2019 losses were driven by a decline of 10.9 percent in the fund’s $23.2 billion public equities portfolio made up of stocks.
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2018 was a good year in Alaska as well for
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The forecast is welcome news for an industry that has been hammered during the three-year recession.
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BP Alaska Pres. Janet Weiss: “In decades to come there needs to be 2.5 billion people lifted out of poverty and there’s going to be another 2 billion added to our planet, so there is a deep need for energy, and we need to do it better with less emissions.”
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The bill amends, but does not reauthorize, the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act.
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“This was flat-out wrong, the way this went down," said Kenai Mayor Brian Gabriel.
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Out of 235 billion cubic feet of gas flared in 2017, Alaska was responsible for just 7.6 bcf.
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There's only a week left to nominate an outstanding individual for the 2019 Top Forty Under 40. alaskajournal.com/40under40
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From the incoming co-chair of Senate Finance Bert Stedman: "We have good intentions but collectively we’re very dangerous and hard on the savings of the state because it’s easier to make a 21 and 11 vote than it is to restructure our operations.” #akleg
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“We’re not looking to derail any progress,” said new board chair Doug Smith. Our original story has been updated with additional reporting.
Meyer out as president of Alaska Gasline Development Corp.