Hecla Mining Company announced a year-long closure at its Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho yesterday (Wednesday).
Energy & Mining
Chieftain says no road, no mine
The company building the mine at the headwaters of the transboundary Taku River says barging up the river will cease next fall.
Taku River meetings to begin
Tulsequah Chief Mine officials are expected to be part of a Taku River task force meeting later this week.
Taku River Task Force schedules first meeting
After a three month delay, the task force – created in September by Juneau’s legislative delegation to gather facts about the river and possible impacts of Tulsequah Chief Mine redevelopment on the Canadian side of the Taku River watershed – will meet for the first time next week.
Deal clears the way for NPR-A development
An agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaves just one formal step before the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska can open up to development.
Snettisham outage to cost about half-a-cent/KWH
Alaska Electric Light & Power burned about $430,000 in diesel during last week’s outage.