Oil Patch Insider: TransCanada on Arctic gas; RDC conference Nov. 18-19; Buffett cash to build Alaska gas line? 11/15/2009
TransCanada, with a financial stake in the Mackenzie Gas Project and the prospect of operating the main gas pipeline to southern markets, but no ownership position, is ideally situated to tell it stra...

Mining Explorers 2009: Pebble team focuses on engineering 11/01/2009
Developers budget US$20 million toward 2009 exploration drilling; rest pre-feasibility work
The Pebble Partnership, a 50-50 venture between Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Anglo American plc, put together a 2009 budget of US$70 million focused on completing a pre-feasibility study for the...

Mining News: EPA wants second look at Kensington plan 07/26/2009
The federal agency seeks re-evaluation of gold project's tailings permit; leaders say Supreme Court ruling should be final word
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take another look at the tailings disposal permit it issued for the Kensington gold project near Juneau. In a Jul...

Mining News: Pebble team focuses on engineering 03/29/2009
Developers budget $59 million toward completing environmental and engineering work needed to begin permitting
The Pebble Partnership, a 50-50 venture between Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Anglo American plc, has budgeted US$59 million for starters toward completing a pre-feasibility study for the enormou...

Mining News: Miners see bumpy road to mineral riches 01/25/2009
Execs cite lack of infrastructure and lengthy litigation as top concerns for doing business in rural state that needs industry
Alaska is rich with minerals and considered a safe place to do business. As a result, investment has flowed into the state. Today, a variety of mines and mining projects are scattered across the vast...

Mining News: Challenges and opportunities 11/30/2008
Pebble CEO is optimistic that extensive environmental studies and planning are the keys to unlock the project's potential
John Shively's longstanding commitment to bringing new opportunities to rural Alaska and his love of a challenge are two qualities that make him the ideal CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership. "If th...

RDC to hold annual meeting Nov. 19-20 11/09/2008
The Resource Development Council will hold its 29th annual meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 19, and Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage. The two-day forum will cover topics ran...

Mining News: DNR: Pebble still on regulatory track 07/27/2008
Mine project's opponents pen 'legal review' of permitting process; biologist confuses issues in criticism of state regulators
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has come under criticism from a coalition of environmental group representatives and former state officials, who say the state agency's oversight is not...

Mining News: Pebble applies for social license 06/29/2008
Five months prior to leading Pebble John Shively addressed Alaska miners on the requirements of acquiring a social license to operate
During John Shively's 17 years working for the NANA Regional Corp., he was involved with the acquisition of land selection rights for the zinc property where the Red Dog Mine is currently located. He...

Civil rights icon Innis unlikely ally for energy extraction 06/08/2008
Roy Innis believes affordable energy is a civil rights issue. Innis brings some legitimacy to that claim. For the past 40 years, he's been the national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, or...

MINING NEWS: Pebble owners pledge to share research 05/25/2008
The partnership releases first two of a series of 14 reports on environmental and socio-economic data collected near giant deposit
The Pebble Partnership, vowing to share its research with the public as it becomes available, has launched a series of reports based on its pre-permitting environmental and socio-economic reports. I...

MINING NEWS: Pebble CEO gets $140 million budget 04/27/2008
Venture's partners set spending for '08 to advance giant copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in Southwest Alaska toward development
The Pebble Limited Partnership- an Alaska-based 50-50 partnership formed between a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Anglo American plc to...

MINING NEWS: New group fights anti-mining initiatives 02/24/2008
'Alaskans Against the Mining Shutdown' corral efforts of diverse leaders to battle ballot measures they say could devastate mines
A new group of Alaskans from across the state have joined forces to fight two proposed ballot initiatives that threaten the mining industry and its $10 billion-plus impact on Alaska's economy. Citin...

MINING NEWS: Groups to honor responsible development 01/27/2008
The Alaska Conservation Alliance and the Resource Development Council of Alaska Inc. have come together to recognize organizations, individuals, and/or businesses that have achieved high standards in...

RDC, conservation community, promote partnerships 01/20/2008
The Alaska Conservation Alliance and the Resource Development Council are jointly establishing an award honoring organizations, individuals or businesses that create solutions and innovations advancin...

Momentum builds behind energy report 12/09/2007
Anchorage Chamber findings, recommendations could spur critical public policy changes across Alaska as briefings continue
A report on energy-related problems facing Alaska, released two weeks ago, has ignited little more than positive comments so far, but its authors hope the report calling for changes will light a fire...

State should move ahead with gas line 11/19/2006
Other suggestions to state: bear costs in mind, ensure access to land; to Palin - broaden base of advisors, fix this contract
What oil and gas issues are of most interest to Alaska's resource community? Mostly how to get more exploration - and a gas pipeline - according to questions the audience asked as the Resource Develo...

Rutherford turns down DNR post 12/22/2002
Marty Rutherford, deputy commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, sent an email to DNR employees Dec. 13 saying that she had been offered the position of DNR commissioner by Gov. Frank Mur...

Oil Patch Insider 12/22/2002
Tundra access looks good; Shively joins Holland America; Peak to build Thetis ice roads
Despite the lack of cold temperatures into mid-December, Gary Schultz is predicting tundra travel will start earlier this year than last. Warmer temps on the North Slope had oil company and state of A...

Murkowski team in 'homework mode' 11/24/2002
Governor-elect names Renkes as AG, Clark as chief of staff and Frasca as budget director; transition team includes Noah, Shively, Weeks, Carlson
Alaska governor-elect Sen. Frank Murkowski has named Greg Renkes as his attorney general, Jim Clark as chief of staff, and Cheryl Frasca as director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I believe...

Insider this week: Alliance elects board members; no drilling at Badami, Point Thomson this season; Edelen on the Kenai River 09/29/2002
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Senate looks at removing petition process from ACMP 03/10/2002
Unlike House Bill 439, Senate Bill 308 also provides for phased permitting for natural gas pipeline project from North Slope to Canada
The Alaska Senate, like the House, is considering a bill removing the right of individuals to petition the Coastal Policy Council over consistency determinations for specific projects. Senate Bill 308...

What will it take to get BP's focus back on Alaska? 11/25/2001
With competition tight within the company for investment dollars - and other places in the world offering better exploration and development opportunities - BP has shut down frontier exploration in Al...

Foothills perseveres on gas line route 04/28/2001
Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. has kept its permits current and continued preliminary work on the Alaska Highway gas pipeline project since the 1970s when it was chosen over two competing routes by Preside...

Ken Boyd leaving Division of Oil and Gas 09/28/2000
Director says areawide leasing biggest change that has occurred while he's been with division; plan modeled on worldwide leasing programs
He's helped bring about a lot of changes in the way the Division of Oil and Gas does business, and there are some things he thinks need more work, but division Director Ken Boyd said Aug. 2 that he wi...