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Cook Inlet

* Featured * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

U.S. judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 15:37
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By Becky Bohrer · The Associated Press Judge rules original environmental review didn’t properly analyze impacts on belugas An environmental review underpinning

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (USA) USA 

Man saved after clinging to ice chunk in Alaska’s Cook Inlet

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 15:49
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By Mark Thiessen Man clung to a chunk of ice in Alaska’s Cook Inlet for over 30 minutes Saturday An

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* Featured * Business Business (USA) Featured • Zone 3 RCI USA 

U.S. cancels public comment period for Alaska oil and gas lease sale

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2021 at 09:29
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Announcement follows Biden’s Jan. 27 executive order pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters The United States’

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska’s congressional delegation: Yes for offshore oil and gas leasing, but not everywhere

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, January 29, 2018 at 16:39
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Alaska’s congressional delegation has asked Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to exclude most of the state from his draft plan for

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
General Society Society (USA) USA 

$7 million in grants to fund indigenous village construction in Alaska

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2017 at 20:16
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced $7 million in grants to 14 Alaska tribal organizations, much

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Business Business (USA) General USA 

Hilcorp makes oil industry’s first move in decades into federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, June 23, 2017 at 14:36
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For the first time in decades, an oil company has put significant money into leases in federal waters of Southcentral

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An oil and gas platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. (iStock)
General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

For first time, Alaska reveals recipients of cash credits for oil and gas activity

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 18:14 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 18:20
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Alaska ended years of silence about its oil and gas tax credits this week by announcing the names of companies that

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Business Business (USA) General USA 

Alaska controversial Chuitna coal mine ‘shelved’ after investor backs out

Zaz Hollander, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 15:05
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The company behind a large and contentious coal mine proposed for the west side of Cook Inlet is suspending all

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Undersea pipeline leak in Alaska: scope and cause of spill still unknown

Michelle Theriault Boots, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 17:20 — Last Updated: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 17:24
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The flow of oil from an undersea pipeline leaking in Cook Inlet was halted Sunday, one day after the leak

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An oil and gas platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. (iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Group to sue company over gas line leak in Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 16:04
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Homer-based Cook Inletkeeper said in a statement to reporters that the leak from an 8-inch undersea pipeline owned and operated

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Business Business (USA) General USA 

Do Arctic villages need oil? Some Alaska tribal leaders say ‘no’

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 14:31
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If oil companies are ever going to return to drill for oil in federal waters of the Arctic, they will

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(LM Otero / AP)
Business USA 

At Alaska’s urging, ConocoPhillips applies for natural gas export license

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 at 10:48
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Exports of liquefied natural gas could resume soon on the Kenai Peninsula, at least if ConocoPhillips has its way. Wednesday

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Southcentral Alaska utilities say that with natural gas supply contracts in hand, concerns over winter shortages have been pushed back until 2018, but some concern remains whether enough gas can get to market when demand peaks. (Aaron Jansen illustration / Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Southcentral Alaska Utilities report gas supply secure to 2018, ‘black holes’ beyond

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, October 7, 2013 at 09:22
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Last year, it was hard not to miss the message Southcentral Alaska utilities and political leaders were shouting: a natural

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The Osprey platform in Cook Inlet. November 1, 2012. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch )
Business USA 

Company squeezes more from a once-dead Alaska oil field

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 11:05
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Another newcomer to Cook Inlet’s oil and gas fields has boosted production after rehabilitating old wells with aggressive drilling techniques.

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Feature

Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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