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Statoil announces it will exit US Arctic petroleum leases off Alaska's northwest coast
2015-11-17 22:50:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Another major oil company is abandoning its plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean off the northwest coast of Alaska. The Norwegian company is also abandoning its stake in 50 Chukchi leases operated by ConocoPhillips.
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Legislative consultants: Pipeline buyout decision unlikely to affect Alaska's finances
2015-10-26 00:51:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Alaska Legislature's oil and gas consultants said in a report released Sunday that the buyout decision facing lawmakers at their special session here is unlikely to have a significant effect on the state's finances. The administration of Gov. Bill Walker is asking lawmakers to approve spending $150 million to increase the state's share in the natural gas pipeline megaproject it's pursuing with three oil companies.
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Nome's Iditarod and the Lost Continent of Beringia: Alaska's Wild West on the Looney Front, Part 2
2015-10-01 16:20:59| Railroads - Topix.net
After its gold rush days, Nome won everlasting fame as the destination of the original Iditarod dog mushing race, although it was not called that back then. In 1925 a diphtheria epidemic raged in the town and the only way to save the inhabitants from a growing death toll was to get them the antitoxin serum.
Alaskas terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
2015-07-27 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Hundreds of wildfires are continually whipping across this state this summer, leaving in their wake millions of acres of charred trees and blackened earth. At the Fairbanks compound of the states Division of Forestry recently, workers were busy washing a mountain of soot-covered fire hoses, which stood in piles roughly six feet high and 100?feet long. About 3,500 smokejumpers, hotshot crews, helicopter teams and other workers have traveled to Alaska this year from across the country and Canada....
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Easing Alaska's wildfire seasons means tackling climate change
2015-07-10 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch News: Alaska is burning. As of July 8 more than 300 fires are blazing across the state in an extreme and costly fire season that could last well into August. Firefighters and the resources they depend on are being pressed to the limits. I know exactly what our front-line defenders are going through. Ive been there. During the summer of 1983, I was among a group of smokejumpers dispatched from western states to Alaska during a major fire bust, a relatively large number of fires started mostly by...
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