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 [...]