Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski Addresses The Nation TODAY Alaska Governor Bill Walker Finishes A Week Facing Falling Oil Prices   Governor Walker Edited from 'Alaskanomics' by Katie Bender. Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) presented his State of the Budget speech to the Legislature on Thursday night. This was one night after the State of the State speech that he presented to open the Legislative session.  He said, “...it will not be easy, but we will manage Alaska out of the fiscal challenges facing our state.”  The budget challenge is well known to the Legislature, the Administration [...]

Our concerns about Wednesday's Executive Order On the Arctic are here, for the record, and we hope Members of Congress and Alaska's Administration are paying attention as the temperature in the pot containing the complacent frog, increases. ALASKA SUPPORT INDUSTRY ALLIANCE: Here are more photos from the recent "Meet Alaska" Conference in Anchorage.   We fully support Senator Murkowski's Alaska viewpoint on supporting the Keystone XL Pipeline as reflected in this week's Op-Ed piece in the Alaska Dispatch News.  -dh​ Alaska Has A Powerful Fighter In Washington: Chair Murkowski! -dh Houston Chronicle, by  Jennifer [...]

Two ADN stories by Dermot Cole.  In the midst of a steep decline in world oil prices, CH2M Hill has scrapped plans to look for a buyer of its oil-field services operation in Alaska and on Sakhalin Island in Russia, the company said Wednesday.  More.... ... CBC.  All evidence still points to the Keystone XL pipeline being approved, despite the political storm raging over it in Washington, D.C., Canada's natural resources minister says. Greg Rickford told a press conference in the American capital today that he thinks, based on U.S. State Department [...]