JUNEAU, Alaska – The 17th Coast Guard District is scheduled to conduct maintenance on its VHF radio system Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. During this time the Coast Guard anticipates that there may be intermittent service outages throughout the state as the work is completed. Due to technical difficulties, Wednesday’s scheduled maintenance was […]
Local residents, who rely on caribou native to the refuge for sustenance, have called the area ‘the heart and soul of mother earth.’ Environmental advocates vowed to sue the U.S. Department of Interior following its announcement Monday that the Trump administration has finalized plans to auction off oil and gas leasing rights in Alaska’s Arctic National […]
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of the Interior today released its final Record of Decision (ROD) for its Environmental Impact Statement related to oil and gas drilling within the ecologically sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Adam Kolton, Executive Director at Alaska Wilderness League said […]
WASHINGTON (Aug. 17, 2020) – Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today is expected to formally open the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas leasing. The agency’s Record of Decision will pave the way for fossil fuel leasing to begin in the 1.5 million-acre Coastal Plain in a matter of months. The following is a statement from […]