Living on a heating planet always comes with some ironies. For one thing, the people who are most to blame for global warming (the rich and powerful) are also shielded Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the Continue Reading
The Trump Administration is set to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling for the first time by approving a drilling program on Monday, U.S. Secretary Continue Reading
In parts of Alaska, beaver activity is hastening the regional thawing of the permafrost, releasing long-trapped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Credit: Steve Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaskan beavers Continue Reading
The US Department of the Interior will open 7 million acres of additional Alaska lands to oil and natural gas leasing in a plan released June 25. Receive daily email Continue Reading
The Trump administration proposed on Thursday to open more than two-thirds of the nation’s largest piece of public land to oil and gas drilling, removing wildlife protections for the Alaskan tract Continue Reading
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved this week the construction and operation of the Alaska LNG project estimated at US$43 billion, which has been years in the planning Continue Reading
BP said on Monday it had amended financial terms of the $5.6 billion sale of its Alaska business to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co following the recent slump in oil Continue Reading
The latest front in the war against drilling for oil in Alaska’s rugged wildlife refuge isn’t Washington — it’s Wall Street. Activists trying to keep rigs out of the Arctic National Continue Reading
ConocoPhillips suspends drilling Possible 12-18 month price slump, company says Oil Search halts work on Pikka early development Anchorage — Alaska North Slope operators have announced spending cuts and delayed Continue Reading
Despite a world awash in liquefied natural gas, Alaska is still working on its $40 billion-plus Alaska LNG project, which if built could deliver 20 million mt/year of LNG to Continue Reading
Goldman Sachs will decline financing for new Arctic oil exploration and production and for new thermal coal mine development or strip mining in its updated environmental policy which makes the Continue Reading
Decrease to 434,300 b/d seen by fiscal 2024 New projects expected to push production back up Small North Slope oil price declines seen in near term Anchorage, Alaska — Alaska’s Continue Reading
The Trump administration failed to adequately consider oil spills, climate change and the welfare of polar bears in its expedited study of proposed drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Continue Reading
