Energy & Mining

Juneau has joined a growing number of communities to call for an international panel to review mines along the U.S.-Canada border near Southeast Alaska.

After Shell’s troubled 2012 drilling season in the far north, the Interior Department began working on Arctic-specific standards for offshore drilling.

Republican leaders expect that the Legislature will go ahead with a special session in October focused on natural gas policy.

Key Republicans, like Anchorage Representative Mike Hawker, are skeptical of the utility’s purchase.

Cook Inlet Region Incorporated has put the second phase of its Fire Island wind farm on hold because of a lack of customers.

A government investigation says poor design led to last summer’s catastrophic failure of British Columbia’s Mount Polley Mine tailings pond.