The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today made a decision to grant Conoco-Phillips permit authorization to construct a drill pad, two valve pads, pipeline support structures, access roads and four bridge crossings for the development of the CD-5 drill site. This site is located just inside the eastern border of NPR-A. This decision came as […]
NORTH KOREA-Kim Jong Il, the Supreme Leader of the impoverished communist country died of an apparent heart attack while traveling by train in an area outside of Pyongyang on Saturday according to reports from North Korea. He was 69.
MOSCOW, Russia-The Russian News Agency, TASS is reporting the capsize and sinking of an oil rig that was being towed in the Sea of Okhotsk. The floating drilling rig Kolskaya, was being towed by the tugboat Neftegaz when it overturned. The sinking occurred after a wave crashed over the rig, breaking equipment and shattering portholes […]
WASHINGTON D.C.-Alaskan Congressman Don Young reintroduced his legislation,H.R. 3604, the Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act. This legislation would amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to allow approximately 2,800 Alaska Natives who served in Vietnam and missed an earlier opportunity because of that service, to reapply for their Native allotment.