On Tuesday, in a video posted online, President Obama announced his plan to designate Bristol Bay as off-limits to oil and gas leasing. With this decision, Obama has safeguarded the rich fishing waters in the south Bering Sea that provides the country with 40% of the wild-caught seafood and provides a $2 billion a year […]
CHICAGO—With the price of oil now less than $80 a barrel, motorists throughout the United States are benefiting from gas prices below $3 a gallon. However, the decreasing price of gas has a downside for the hydraulic fracturing industry in the United States. North Dakota’s economy is on fire, thanks to developments in technology that […]
Palmer Troopers received a 911 call from a concerned person on Porcupine Avenue in Wasilla on Saturday afternoon. They reported to troopers that they had observed a suspicious vehicle parked in a neighbor’s driveway, and that two females were there siphoning fuel from a pickup truck parked there into a gas can. Troopers responded to […]
Nenana, AK – Community members around Alaska who are advocating for a pipeline that will deliver gas to Alaskans and address high in-state energy costs, are voicing disappointment in comments made by gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker. The Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) Community Advisory Council, a volunteer group advocating for the small diameter pipeline that […]