ADN Op-Ed by Nils Andeassen.  America’s increasing attention on the Arctic is timely and well-deserved but it’s important to recognize that there have been many individuals and organizations whose focus on the Arctic over the years we are now building on.

Office of the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, by Bill White.  

Keystone XL

CBC by Sophia Harris.  America and Canada are friends. That’s the main message Americans got from phase one of the federal government's multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to promote Canadian oil in Washington and drum up support for the Keystone XL pipeline.

That’s no surprise to some Washington-based Canada-U.S. relations experts who say the first leg of the campaign was too polite and, (more….) 

Construction of the multibillion-dollar Alaska LNG project would tap a bounty of public resources – crossing rivers, disturbing soils and vegetation at least temporarily, creating emissions that would alter air quality, encountering threatened and endangered species.

The project’s sponsors cannot use the public’s water, land and other resources without permission, and a public process finding that such uses would be acceptable, findings that likely would come with strings attached.

The sponsors know the task ahead and have been gathering the environmental data regulators would want to see. We provide a brief guide to the federal agencies handling the major authorizations Alaska LNG would need.