Welcome news was released by oil companies Repsol and Armstrong Oil and Gas, announcing their discovery of significant onshore oil on Alaska’s North Slope today on the Horseshoe prospect. While it had been previously announced that light oil had been discovered, Thursday’s announcement extended the Nanushuk Play in the Pikka Unit by approximately 20 miles and […]
In early March up on the frozen Arctic Coastal Plain, as the wind sculpts snow into drifts, it’s hard to tell northern lakes from surrounding tundra. But lurking deep beneath that flat white world are toothy predators as long as your arm. In pools 60 feet down, lake trout are somehow passing the long winter. […]
Juneau – Wednesday, the Alaska State Senate joined the Alaska House of Representatives in approving House Joint Resolution 5, urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development. The resolution, sponsored by Representative Dean Westlake (D-Kotzebue), underwent minor […]
It was announced on Friday by U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler of the Justice Department, that 48-year-old Margaret Ann Solomon, who worked as an Evidence Custodian for the North Slope Borough Police Department, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for Embezzling. In addition, Solomon, who worked for the NSBPD from 2006 until 2012, […]