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The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers
The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers There are a few unarguable truths about mine tailings, the pulverized rock, water and sludge left over from mineral extraction — mining is a messy business, the leftovers have to be dealt with forever and it’s impossible to guarantee against another […]
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’ Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world […]
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’ No fish in the car, warned the rental car attendant at Juneau airport, with the weary tone of someone who had cleaned too many fish guts out of returned vehicles. It was a warning underlined by signs in hotels pleading with […]
U.S. allows Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska
U.S. allows Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska Company hopes to drill 2 wells in the Chukchi Sea by late September The U.S. government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time […]
The Wild Alaskan Lands at Stake If the Pebble Mine Moves Ahead
The Wild Alaskan Lands at Stake If the Pebble Mine Moves Ahead Robert Glenn Ketchum This highland backcountry is some of the wildest in North America and supports an impressive array of wildlife. View the photo gallery. The proposed Pebble Mine in southwestern Alaska is a project of almost unfathomable scale. The Pebble Limited Partnership intends to […]
Senators Call For End To Arctic Drilling As Shell Gets Permits To Begin Work In Chukchi Sea
Senators Call For End To Arctic Drilling As Shell Gets Permits To Begin Work In Chukchi Sea Shell received the final permits it needed to begin drilling exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea last Wednesday, but a group of Senators led by Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is calling for a ban on Arctic drilling altogether. According […]
Shell’s Renewed Arctic Drilling Campaign Faces Yet Another Setback As Key Ship Forced Back To Port
Shell’s Renewed Arctic Drilling Campaign Faces Yet Another Setback As Key Ship Forced Back To Port Is Shell finally “Arctic Ready” after its doomed 2012 campaign? The company is set to begin drilling in the Arctic within the week, and it’s already not looking good. The MSV Fennica, an icebreaker vessel bound for the Chukchi Sea, had barely left […]
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC Proposed northern BC mines ‘source of great angst in Juneau.’ Earlier this month, Heather Hardcastle, a commercial fisherwoman from Juneau, Alaska met in Williams Lake, B.C. with members of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation. They shared a meal of wild Alaskan salmon that Hardcastle brought […]
Shell Approval May Trigger Resource Race In The Arctic
Shell Approval May Trigger Resource Race In The Arctic In a few short months Shell will (re)enter the Chukchi Sea. The oil and gas major still awaits approval from a number of state and federal agencies, but in early May the company received the consent of the Obama administration to explore the remote Arctic sea 70 miles […]
Shell clears major hurdle for Arctic drilling
Shell clears major hurdle for Arctic drilling Exploration plan calls for 2 ships to drill up to 6 wells northwest of Wainwright, Alaska Just days ahead of a planned protest of Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program in Seattle, the company on Monday cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to drill off Alaska’s northwestern coast. The […]
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines Worried Alaskans who fear lucrative fisheries and tourism industries are at risk from lax B.C. oversight of mine safety are meeting with state officials next week to ask the U.S. State Department to push for more input on mine development along […]
Arctic Oil On Life Support
Arctic Oil On Life Support Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north is arguably the last corner of the globe that is still almost entirely unexplored. As drilling technology advances, conventional oil reserves become harder to find, and climate […]
Alaska Governor Warns State’s Fiscal Situation “Critical” As Oil Price Drops | Zero Hedge
Alaska Governor Warns State’s Fiscal Situation “Critical” As Oil Price Drops | Zero Hedge. Narrative, we have a problem. What is billed day after day as ‘unequivocally good’ is entirely not good for Alaska (oh and Texas and Pennsylvania and…) as with oil prices dropping, AP reports Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has halted new spending on six high-profile […]
B.C. KSM Gold Mine Gets Environmental Approval From Federal Government
B.C. KSM Gold Mine Gets Environmental Approval From Federal Government. The federal government approved the environmental assessment application on Friday for the massive KSM gold and copper mine in northwestern British Columbia near the Alaska border. The mine, which is owned by Seabridge Gold Inc., is considered the largest undeveloped gold reserve in the world […]
Obama Bars Oil Industry From Alaska’s Bristol Bay | Environment News Service
Obama Bars Oil Industry From Alaska’s Bristol Bay | Environment News Service. President Barack Obama today designated the waters of Bristol Bay as off limits to oil and gas leasing for exploration, development or production. This action safeguards one of the nation’s most productive fisheries and preserves an ecologically rich area of the Bering Sea […]
