Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced Tuesday that Balash will be leaving his position as assistant secretary for land and minerals management.
The proposed two-page ballot measure would bring the state an extra $1 billion, supporters said.
Furie Operating Alaska produces gas in Cook Inlet but has been losing large sums of money.
Sanctions against Iran and contaminated oil from Russia appear to be giving Alaska a small but much-needed financial boost.
Coeur will pay $534,500 for alleged discharge violations and a reporting failure associated with the Kensington mine.
For decades, Alaska binged when oil prices were high and cut spending when they weren’t. This time, prices haven’t boomed.
It would be one of a handful of operations outside Cook Inlet or the North Slope.
A discussion about increasing taxes paid by oil companies could play out before the Legislature next year, some lawmakers say.
Alaska Native and environmental groups say the U.S. Interior Department has withheld information on the sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It’s still too early to know if petroleum even exists in the refuge in commercially-viable quantities. But if it’s found, Kaktovik’s residents are simultaneously positioned to be among the biggest beneficiaries, and to experience some of the biggest disruptions.
Together, the contracts hiring Ed King to study oil taxes and public education funding are worth up to $95,000.
The reductions are expected to take AGDC’s personnel count from about 20 to less than 10 over the coming weeks.
The fire in a tanker truck at the Petro Star facility was quickly brought under control, officials said.
Valdez officials note that going to Nikiski requires almost 200 miles of new pipeline right-of-way as well as a 27-mile subsea crossing of upper Cook Inlet.
The state-owned corporation is drastically cutting its staffing while it is in the midst of permitting the $43 billion Alaska LNG Project.
The project would result in substantial impacts on permafrost, wetlands, forest, and caribou -- but effects could be reduced or eliminated if care taken.
The report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission addresses the project’s environmental impacts.
Furie Operating Alaska is one of the newer entrants to Cook Inlet that were supposed to ease Southcentral gas supply concerns by developing new fields and adding competition to the market.
2019 was originally supposed to be a bounce-back year after an unexpected decline in 2018.
Anchorage residents in particular have seen solar panels going up in the past few years. But across the state, more Alaskans are turning to the sun to power their homes and businesses.
