Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Keynote Speech: Helvi Sandvik (coming on 10-16-13….)

Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  An impoverished group of Northwest Alaska villages whose residents hunt walrus and seals to survive have banded together to form a corporation to capitalize on an economic boom on the U.S. side of the Arctic, should that day ever come. … The group's efforts will bear their first fruit early next week. Royal Dutch Shell agreed to sponsor a hazardous materials training workshop in Wales for 12 to 24 residents living in that village at the tip of the Bering Strait….

Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  A growing market in Mexico for U.S. natural gas will help bleed off the glut of shale gas that has ruined North American gas prices, according to a market update Tuesday from FirstEnergy Capital.