Offshore in Cook Inlet, a 'silent economy' hunts for gas to keep Alaska running
Northern Journal helicoptered out to the offshore rig drilling for the increasingly scarce natural gas that powers urban Alaska.
Nathaniel Herz
Amid gas crunch, Alaska could revoke leases from a company whose drilling has stalled
The Dunleavy administration is threatening to strip Texas-based BlueCrest Energy of oil and gas leases near Anchorage, saying it’s failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska's impending gas shortage.
Fact-checking Tom Cruise: Inside ‘Mission: Impossible’s’ trip to ‘Alaska’
Sure, there could be a secret CIA installation on a Bering Sea island. But taking a dog team across the surrounding sea ice? Only in Hollywood.
New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces
The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.
Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers don’t.
Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.
Alaska utility execs to lawmakers: Let’s revive Susitna hydroelectric megaproject
The request by leaders of the state’s urban utilities faces opposition from some advocates, who say wind power is a more politically and economically realistic bet than the multi-billion-dollar Susitna development.
Conservation group's lawsuit seeks to speed listing of Alaska king salmon under Endangered Species Act
The lawsuit asks a judge to order the service to "promptly issue" its decision on the petition by a specific date.