“I’m sure there’s goodwill that’s intended to be built, but I’m fine with that.” - Craig McConnell, the Kobuk borough Assembly president, on AIDEA’s $25,000 relief check for fuel.
(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By Yereth Rosen
The Prince William Sound town of Whittier is sometimes called the “strangest town in Alaska” because nearly all of its roughly 250 residents dwell in a single high-rise building. Now it has another claim to fame: It is designated by the National Park Service as one of the nation’s American World War II Heritage Cities.
(Image provided by Alaska Division of Oil and Gas)
By Yereth Rosen
A small energy company that was assessed a hefty fine in July for what regulators said was five months of illegal natural gas flaring on the North Slope was cited again for another four months of gas flaring.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, in an order issued Friday, assessed a $195,214 fine against Mustang Holding LLC, the operator of the Southern Miluveach Unit on the western side of the North Slope.
(Nathaniel Herz/Anchorage Press)
By Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Press
Amid a global spike in fuel costs, the tiny Northwest Alaska villages of Shungnak and Ambler reported some of the most eye-watering prices at the pump in the past few months — more than $25 per gallon for gas in both communities, located on the Kobuk River.
Enter the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, or AIDEA. That’s the state-owned economic development corporation that hopes to build a mining road across the remote area where the villages are located, over the objections of conservation groups and some regional grassroots opposition.
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