As the Arctic warms, the oil industry adapts to sustain ice-road season in Alaska
Alaska’s North Slope oil industry is battling back as Earth has warmed, adopting new techniques to allow operators to start building ice
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Author: Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Audi plans return to Arctic Alaska for secretive cold-weather testing
A German automaker plans to return to Alaska’s North Slope early next year to continue its secretive cold-weather performance tests
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Tanker-truck crashes and spills an increasing worry on Alaska highways say regulators
Federal and state regulators in Alaska say they’re working to stem what has been a growing number of tanker-truck accidents in
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Appeals court supports climate-based listing of seal as threatened in Alaska
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reinstated a decision protecting bearded seals in Alaska under the Endangered Species
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Department of Energy eyes hydropower to help Alaska
The lone U.S. Department of Energy employee in Alaska is turning his attention to small-scale hydropower projects that could help rural communities burdened
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Caelus Energy CEO calls offshore Arctic oil discovery a ‘game-changer’
Caelus Energy’s CEO said on Tuesday he is “terribly excited” about the company’s oil discovery at Smith Bay and expects
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Caelus claims offshore Arctic oil discovery that could rank among Alaska’s biggest ever
Caelus Energy Alaska said Tuesday it has made a “world-class” oil discovery that, if estimates prove true, could be one
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Lockheed Martin’s first cargo airship is planned for deployment in Alaska
Alaska could be the home of the world’s first modern cargo airship once the aircraft rolls off Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in
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Oil producers balk following new study calling Alaska’s LNG project uneconomic
Even as Alaskans were digesting a new report asserting that Alaska’s liquefied natural gas project wouldn’t be competitive with other projects
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Governor fends off criticism over Alaska LNG
Alaska Governor Bill Walker on Tuesday shot back at what he called “misstatements” about his pursuit of an Alaska-led gas project,
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Repsol joins oil-company exodus from the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea
Spanish oil company Repsol has relinquished its federal leases in the Chukchi Sea, joining other companies that have exited the
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U.S. Army Corps reviews of North Slope oil project
A federal agency is launching an environmental review of plans by the Spanish oil company Repsol to develop what may be one
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Native corporations Alaska’s new wildcatters
Alaska Native regional corporations are wildcatting for oil and gas in the state’s frontier basins, eyeing little-explored prospects after dusting off
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‘Farm in a box’ offers year-round Alaska crops
An Anchorage startup company has found a new use for the refrigerated container vans that once brought perishable items to
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Alaska: Oil companies lose pipeline case
A federal agency has ruled that the oil-company owners of the trans-Alaska pipeline had so badly managed an upgrade project, they
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