The past few months, Alaska oil has been running as much as $10 per barrel greater than the U.S. benchmark price, in a reversal of decades past when Alaska crude sold below the benchmark.
The Tulsequah Chief mine in the Taku River drainage has been leaking acid runoff for decades.
The loan was unusual because of a partnership the operating company had with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the state-owed development bank.
An Interior official indicated that the emergence of the Nanushuk formation and advances in drilling technology make it an appropriate time to rewrite the federal land-use plan for NPR-A.
The state-led project’s latest timeline still shows first liquefied gas production by fall 2024.
The state received bids on 133 tracts covering 223,680 onshore North Slope acres, and eight Beaufort Sea tracts totaling 20,270 acres garnered bids.
ASMI has spent years cultivating its relationship with China, but there are potentially other trade relationships on the horizon too.
The set gillnet and drift gillnet fleet in Upper Cook Inlet harvested about 1.3 million salmon, 815,000 of which were sockeye, or about 61 percent below the 10-year average harvest of sockeye.
People interested in getting the green light to start marijuana businesses in Alaska are more focused on cultivation than retail.
