ANCHORAGE – After receiving more than 400,000 public comments and following two days of meetings and visits with North Slope leaders, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday outlined a proposed plan that will allow for additional access for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
On Saturday, August 11th, Alaska's Representative Don Young issued a press release in response to Administrator Dennis McLerran of the EPA's claims that well over 90 percent of the letters to the EPA support the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
August 12, 2012, Juneau, Alaska – Citing the risk to Alaskan and American jobs, Governor Sean Parnell today urged Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to exercise his authority to expedite the Record of Decision (ROD) on the Point Thomson project.
At 5:28 pm on Saturday evening, Alaska State troopers responded to a roll-over at mile.2 of the Hatcher Pass Road near Palmer Fishhook Road.