ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker issued a proclamation Thursday calling the Legislature into a special session on October 24 in Juneau to address gasline issues. In a short video address to Alaskans, Governor Walker explained the urgency of North Slope gas production. “With a $3.5 billion budget deficit, this gasline project has gone from a […]
TOKYO—Governor Bill Walker on Monday kicked off a weeklong series of meetings in Japan about taking Alaska’s natural gas to market. He and members of his team met with officials of a leading Japanese trade company, a governmental financing organization and two major utilities. They also met in Tokyo with U.S. Department of Energy officials […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott Wednesday welcomed White House support for cleaner, more affordable energy in rural Alaska. The White House’s Clean Energy Solutions for Remote Communities call-to-action, launched yesterday, calls on the wider investment community to help identify creative, collaborative ideas for financing clean energy in remote communities, with […]
Searchers retrieved one body from the massive, deadly Sitka mudslide and two remain missing on Thursday as searchers continue to work through the debris. 25-year-old Ulises Diaz and 26-year-old Elmer Diaz, two men working on a house in the path of the slide, and a city building inspector, 61-year-old William Stortz, remain missing. Ulises, and his […]