A judge has ruled in favor of environmental groups in their effort to block the Trump administration’s push to re-open large portions of Arctic waters to oil drilling.
North Slope
Which Native voices? On ANWR, lawmakers practice selective listening.
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.
State forecasts higher oil prices, lower production in spring update
Combined with some other changes, the Alaska Department of Revenue now projects that the state will have $89 million less for this year’s budget. And it will have $39 million more for the 2020 budget that begins in July.
Alaska, oil companies to determine economic viability of gasline within 60 days
Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he didn’t hear much interest in Alaska’s gasline at a conference in Texas. But he did hear interest from companies in investing in North Slope oil.
Environmental group says Interior hid gaps in ANWR science
An environmental group has published 18 memos that outline gaps in knowledge about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the Interior Department says the memos are intended to inform future work and haven’t been concealed.
Cash-strapped state of Alaska takes aim at North Slope government’s oil money
A proposal by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy would strip the North Slope Borough of its power to collect nearly $400 million in property taxes from oil companies each year. The idea gets at a longstanding question: How much money from oil should stay in the North Slope, where it’s pumped from the ground?