Alaska Indigenous groups try to influence Canadian mining project talks.  Indigenous leaders in Southeast Alaska hope to form a statewide alliance lobbying for protection of salmon stocks in the state, including the Yukon River watershed.   Read More Feds seek comments on Alaska's in-state natural gas pipeline. KTOO.  (Map courtesy of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation) ... The Alaska Standalone Pipeline would bring gas from the North Slope to Wasilla. Alaska Highway reopens after tanker crash and fuel spill   Read More

MID-WEEK AL-CAN ENERGY HEADLINES Nebraska landowners grill TransCanada over Keystone pipeline.  CBC.ca.  Attorney Dave Domina told CBC News that Albertans should be able to relate ... Domina also alluded to TransCanada's Bison Pipeline, a natural gas ... Alaska tribes try to influence Canadian mining project talks.  A group of 16 southeast Alaska tribes has hired a coordinator to express their concerns about a series of large Canadian mining projects that the tribes fear… Alaska tribes form provisional government, seek sovereignty Tribe leaders in western Alaska have set up a provisional government that might lead to [...]

Frustrating delays for natural gas: Interior Energy Project halted in argument about IGU spending News-Miner opinion: Good news about natural gas for the Interior is hard to come by these days. For more than a year, progress has effectively been at a halt on the Interior Energy Project that aims to bring the fuel to Fairbanks and provide a lower-cost, more stable heating option for residents. The picture got worse late last month, when an Interior Gas Utility update to the Borough Assembly revealed that IGU has been forced to stop work on [...]

Senate Restores FERC Quorum, Confirms Deputy Secretary of Energy Committee Also Advances Five Nominees to Full Senate                                                                                                                                                  [...]

Geologic photos of Alaska available through searchable online tool (Fairbanks, AK) – The Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys has published more than 6,500 free public-use photographs taken during geologic field projects in its new database application, the Geologic Photos of Alaska, available at maps.dggs.alaska.gov/photodb. The photos document scenery, landforms, rock outcrops, geologic observations, vegetation, wildlife, and fieldwork activities conducted throughout Alaska, usually in remote locations that are difficult or expensive to revisit. Many of the photos now currently available through this application were taken by former DGGS geologists Gil [...]

Regional district, MP Zimmer address LNG, CN Rail issues, Alaska Highway News. Regional district, MP Zimmer address LNG, CN Rail issues ... the B.C. side of the Alaska Highway onto the Drive BC website—it currently only covers ...

As a candidate for president in 2016, Donald Trump unveiled his America First Energy Plan—a bold proposal to transform the United States beyond mere energy independence. His goal was to make America a global energy power again, and that’s exactly what’s happening. Trump has already turned back years of Barack Obama’s anti-energy policies, causing the United States to once again emerge as a global energy power. This is an amazing turn of events—one that would have been impossible had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, and still remarkable under Trump. You must join [...]