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Mining exec: Alaska’s pricy, fossil fuel-based power could thwart investment
Kinross Gold, whose Fairbanks-area mine employs 700 people, says its Alaska investments have "extremely high" energy costs and carbon emissions compared…
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Nathaniel Herz
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U.S. military quietly revokes planned contract for small nuclear plant at Alaska Air Force base
The military had planned to give a contract for a "micro-reactor" to Silicon Valley firm Oklo — whose chairman, Sam Altman, also led the company behind…
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Monthly premiums for health insurance on the federal marketplace will rise 16% in Alaska next year
The spike comes after an 18% increase the previous year, which means prices have risen more than one-third in two years. Experts say inflation and…
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Dissident shareholders ousted the pro-logging board of Yakutat's Indigenous village corporation. Here's what comes next.
An interview with Meda DeWitt, a former chair of the Recall Dunleavy campaign who now leads the board of directors of Yak-Tat Kwaan, the village…
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Sealaska's chief executive to depart, but company says its strategy will stay the same
Anthony Mallott, who's led the Southeast Alaska regional Native corporation for nearly a decade, is leaving his job, along with another executive…
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Interesting Stuff: More legislators press AG on Cook Inlet gas, a $750,000 settlement and an Aleutian murder mystery
Also: A state utility regulator wanted to block the Permanent Fund's board chair and a renewable energy advocacy group from weighing in on an Anchorage…
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Why I won't be sending you a Nat Herz bobblehead
A thank-you for Northern Journal's first year in business, and a request as it heads into year two.
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Interesting Stuff: Apache's return to the North Slope, AIDEA's pro-Pebble legal contract and the death of snow days
Also: The pilot in the Halibut Cove float plane-boat faceoff makes her case to a federal judge, and a high-profile hire in the Alaska Senate.
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If Alaska wants more Cook Inlet gas, taxpayers should get ready to pony up
The state will likely have to spend real money to get companies to drill more wells in Cook Inlet. But how much should Alaska invest in petroleum when…
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October 2023
With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action
A federal agency says it's considering a rewrite to guidelines that shape management plans for Bering Sea and other fisheries. But it has not yet…
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Interesting stuff: a guilty plea in Kachemak Bay seaplane case, a state contract for McKinsey and Dunleavy's revived pro-family efforts
Plus: an array of stakeholders weigh in on Anchorage's electric utility's proposal to raise rates, AIDEA pays $500,000 for road data and Dunleavy gets a…
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Nathaniel Herz
September 2023
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