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 […]
Jim Beget spends much of his time digging for clues from long ago, like when a volcanic island might have collapsed into the sea, sending giant waves to distant shores. He will soon engage in debate on a contemporary question: before carbon dioxide makes the world unlivable, what can we do about it? In December, […]
Scientists have developed new geochemical tracers that can identify hydraulic fracturing flowback fluids that have been spilled or released into the environment. The tracers have been field-tested at a spill site in West Virginia and downstream from an oil and gas brine wastewater treatment plant in Pennsylvania. “By characterizing the isotopic and geochemical fingerprints of […]