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FAA Oks drones over Alaska oil area
2013-08-25 21:42:24| Energy - Topix.net
The Petroleum News reports approval for two remote-controlled aircraft to fly over the Arctic Ocean is an aviation milestone.
Oil companies that got their Alaska taxes cut now don't like the rules proposed to implement them
2013-08-22 09:08:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Spurred by Republican Gov. Sean Parnell, a former ConocoPhillips lobbyist assisted by two legislators who still work for the company, the Alaska legislature passed the oil-friendly SB 21 earlier this year.
BBC News Magazine Profiles Disappearing Kivalina, Alaska
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country News: With studies about rising sea levels flooding in, Kivalina, Alaska is on the map as the place most likely to be wiped off of it next. BBC News Magazine has profiled the town of 400 Alaska Natives, who have been busy looking for a new place to live for the past several years as rising sea levels overtake the slender peninsula on which their village is perched. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts that Kivalina will be uninhabitable as soon as 2025, BBC News reported in a July 29 story. As the...
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Alaska Railroad CEO to step down
2013-08-10 18:13:46| Railroads - Topix.net
The chief executive officer of the state-owned Alaska Railroad is stepping down after his three-year contract expires in September.
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Extreme Heat Is Killing Off Thousands Of Fish In Alaska
2013-08-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Progress: Unusually hot, dry weather in Alaska is wreaking havoc on fisheries, as thousands of fish perish in overheated waters. Last month, 1,100 king salmon died on their way up to the Crystal Lake hatchery due to water temperatures around 80 degrees Fahrenheit and lack of oxygen. Thats the bulk of the 1,800 adult salmon that were expected to return to the hatchery this season. Earlier in the summer, another hatchery lost hundreds of grayling and rainbow trout in a Fairbanks lake where water temperatures...
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