Parnell budget includes road to Umiat 12/19/2010
Governor calls Alaska storehouse of resource wealth, but feds keep 'changing the locks'; says state litigates when persuasion fails
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell presented his fiscal year 2012 budget to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Dec. 15, saying that with disciplined and strategic spending, "Alaskans can have economic opportunit...

The Explorers 2010: Cook Inlet basin 11/14/2010
Cook Inlet, a major sea inlet between the Kenai Peninsula and the mainland of Southcentral Alaska, lies over part of a deep sedimentary basin that has formed between the Kenai Mountains and the mounta...

Welcome to new world; Imperial boss says activism here to stay 10/17/2010
Bruce March, chief executive officer of Imperial Oil - 70 percent owned by ExxonMobil - delivered a dispassionate assessment of unconventional resource development (especially the oil sands and shale...

Arctic Directory: Alaska's offshore is different 09/19/2010
One of the biggest differences is the Arctic has shallow, not deep water
Oil and gas land owned by the State of Alaska-both onshore and offshore-is still open for development! With all the attention given to offshore drilling in the past year, it is important to realize th...

Meyers says fiscal regime hurting AK 09/19/2010
ConocoPhillips executive says that reduced government take would trigger a rebound in Alaska exploration drilling and land leasing
The continuing, steady decline of oil production from Alaska's North Slope may appear to signal the sunset of the North Slope oil industry, but with ample oil reserves remaining in established oil fie...

Murkowski slams Obama administration 08/22/2010
Says that new legislation and federal regulations show that government sees Alaska natural resource development as a problem
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, in a speech to the World Trade Center Alaska on Aug. 17, blasted the federal government for what she characterized as overreach in applying legislation and regulations that limit...