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Valdez Star
March 29, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which were eventually paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃâà...
Alaskajournal.com
March 29, 2018
BP netted $830 million from its North Slope operations in 2017 but the company's Alaska leaders contend the net income figure shrinks to $118 million when all of the work it does in the state is factored in against a backdrop of $543 million in taxes and royalties paid to the State of Alaska. Most of the $830Ãâà...
Alaskajournal.com
March 28, 2018
Sean Parnell of playing election-year politics for his moves to advance the Alaska LNG Project as an equity consortium with the three major North Slope producers and TransCanada. Now as Walker pursues reelection his surrogates are asking critics of his plan to be quiet about the path he's pursuing andÃâà...
Alaskajournal.com
March 28, 2018
Signs are seen guiding the way over ice roads to ConocoPhillips projects in the in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope. The company is nearing production from one project in the NPR-A and got good news from regulators on another project just a few miles away on March 22.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 28, 2018
“Literally, if you line up the big fields up on the North Slope, this probably ranks third behind Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk,” Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack said. Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk, of course, are the giant oil fields responsible for making Alaska the oil state it isÃâà...
KTVA
March 28, 2018
A 3-year-old boy has died after a Sunday shooting in Alaska's northernmost city, according to police in Utqiagvik. A report of the shooting, at a residence in the community formerly known as Barrow, came in just before 5 p.m. Sunday according to a statement from the North Slope Borough Police Department. “The juvenileÃâà...
KTUU.com
March 27, 2018
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A 3-year-old child from the North Slope community of Utqiaġvik has died from a gunshot wound, suffered at a home Sunday evening. According to David Fauske, Director of Government and External Affairs for the North Slope Borough, police responded to a local residence atÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 27, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 3-year old died following a shooting in a home in the North Slope community of Utqiagvik (oot-GAR'-vik). North Slope Borough spokesman David Fauske says borough police shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday responded to the home. Anchorage television station KTUU reportsÃâà...
Hakai Magazine
March 27, 2018
The Toolik Field Station on Alaska's North Slope, as seen from an approaching Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter. Photo by Thomas Nash/High ... Rose Cory in front of the thermokarst of Wolverine Lake, near the Toolik Lake Research Natural Area on the North Slope of Alaska. Cory, an aquatic geochemistÃâà...
Anchorage Daily News
March 27, 2018
A 3-year-old boy was shot at an Utqiagvik residence Sunday and died of his injuries on a medevac flight to Anchorage, North Slope Borough police say ... The child, who was not identified, was first transported to Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital by the North Slope Borough Fire Department, police saidÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 27, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 27, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃâà...
The Seattle Times
March 26, 2018
But those yearly checks have gotten smaller, and could undergo a massive change, as Alaska struggles to pay state troopers and fix roads amid years of low oil prices. After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from anÃâà...
KTUU.com
March 26, 2018
Northern Alaska remains one location that is consistently above average. The CPC says the next three months have a 55 percent of being above normal across the North Slope. The Interior, West Coast, Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians have a 37 to 45 percent chance of being warmer than normal. There'sÃâà...
Farmington Daily Times
March 25, 2018
Despite congressional approval, oil and gas drilling in Alaska's ANWR is still years away ... signed an order last May calling for an update of assessments of the recoverable oil and natural gas resources in Alaska's North Slope, including the 1.5-million-acre area of ANWR where drilling will be allowed.
Anchorage Daily News
March 24, 2018
Bill Walker, center left, smiles after the signing of the joint development agreement for an Alaska gas line in Beijing on Nov. 9. (Photo provided by ... Bill Walker's state-owned North Slope gas line would be the most audacious venture into private industry an American state has ever made. It also has theÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 16, 2018
The North Slope Borough, in an effort to lower the cost of living in the region, plans to build 300 miles of snow roads in the coming days so residents in two ... The borough hopes to expand the frosty road network in future winters, linking additional villages such as Wainwright to the Alaska road system.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 7, 2018
Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt addresses the North Slope Borough Assembly in Utqiagvik March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ravenna Koenig/Alaska's Energy Desk). A high-profile guest was in attendance at the North Slope Borough Assembly meeting in Utqiaġvik Tuesday. The InteriorÃâà...
E&P
December 31, 1999
The warmest winter on record in Arctic Alaska has hit local oil production, said officials from the U.S. state, as temperatures hampered industrial machinery designed to optimize output when conditions are most frigid. Production of the North Slope grade of crude oil has averaged about 518,000 barrels perÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
In a single day this month, the North Slope Borough lost an assistant attorney and its police chief when they were fired by the administration. ... As the Arctic Sounder previously reported, Alaska Police Standards Council Executive Director Bob Griffiths said he was informed of the decision and given theÃâà...
