“If you think about the total natural gas consumption across the country, it would be the equivalent of just under three years’ worth of U.S. natural gas consumption.” - Alicia Lindauer, coordinator of the USGS energy resources program, on the amount of undiscovered natural gas estimated to be in the North Slope.
(Yereth Rosen photo/Alaska Beacon)
By James Brooks
The Alaska Division of Elections and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom acted incorrectly when they put disqualified Republican candidate Jose Tagle on the ballot for state House District 22, an Anchorage Superior Court judge said Thursday.
Judge Josie Garton’s decision, published in the late afternoon, means “Tagle’s election may not be certified if he does win a majority of votes in the general election,” she wrote.
(Photo by Bob Wick/U.S. Bureau of Land Management)
By Yereth Rosen
Alaska’s North Slope probably holds enough undiscovered natural gas to fuel the nation for nearly three years, according to a new federal report.
A resource assessment released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey produced a mean estimate of 96 trillion cubic feet for undiscovered conventional natural gas reserves across the entire North Slope.
(Pema Baldwin for Colorado Newsline)
By Kevin Hardy
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats.
Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle.
(Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
By James Brooks
Early, in-person voting opened for Alaska’s general election on Monday morning, and as of Wednesday morning, 17,560 Alaskans had already cast their votes.
That includes almost 11,000 people who have voted at early voting sites in the Railbelt, Juneau and Nome, as well as more than 6,000 who had voted absentee by mail, fax or in person. More than 30,000 blank absentee ballots have not yet been returned.
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