JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District participated in a ceremony to recognize the start of construction for the Kenai River Bluffs Erosion Project. Col. Jeffrey Palazzini, district commander, gathered alongside several stakeholders and political officials at the Kenai Senior Citizens Center and delivered remarks about the project’s […]
Tlingit & Haida’s construction company, Southeast General Contractors, began work in July to rebuild the Haven House women’s non-congregate shelter in Juneau, Alaska. Haven House opened in 2015 and was Juneau’s first transitional home for women in reentry from incarceration or addiction treatment. In October 2020, Tlingit & Haida’s Reentry & Recovery Department […]
One climate advocate applauded the court for giving communities “a measure of reprieve” by stopping construction of the pipeline in Jefferson National Forest. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday temporarily blocked the construction of a section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline that runs through Jefferson National Forest, pending […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Monday, a U.S. District Court Judge denied initial attempts by environmental groups to halt the Willow Project concluding that the balance of the equities and the public interest tip sharply against preliminary injunctive relief for the plaintiffs. Construction activities, including gravel work, are expected to begin on Willow tomorrow. “This Court order validates […]