ANCHORAGE – Yesterday, Senator Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, and Senator Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, wrote to Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor urging the Department of Law to investigate Alaska’s excessively high fuel prices and determine if Alaskans are experiencing price gouging. According to AAA, Alaska consumer prices for motor fuel have risen 42.4 cents on average in […]
An aircraft piloted by Malcolm Martin of North Pole had to make an emergency landing after encountering fuel problems outside of Fort Wainwright on Monday evening. Fairbanks-based troopers were notified by the U.S Army Air Traffic Control unit located at Fort Wainwright, that an aircraft made an emergency landing at the intersection of Badger Road […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska.; Feb. 1, 2021) – Crowley Solutions has been awarded the five-year contract to deliver military specification fuel to the Eareckson Air Station located on the remote Aleutian Island of Shemya, Alaska. Under the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency-Energy contract, beginning in 2021, Crowley will provide lightering and transportation of 4 million gallons of fuel […]
“No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate.” A report published Tuesday by the nonprofit Earthworks details the difference between what major fossil fuel companies say and do in terms of voluntary and government-mandated efforts to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane, concluding that “the […]