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OPINION: Alaska’s North Slope oil and gas development is a story of dark clouds

Pipelines at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope on Friday, May 22, 2015. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is now moving less than a fourth of the oil it did…
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Inside a company’s bid to make Alaska’s next big oil field lower-carbon • Alaska

Oil companies help stoke climate change by producing fuel that warms the earth when burned. But the Australian company building one of…
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Hilcorp Acquires Eni’s Beaufort Sea Oil Fields on Alaska’s North Slope

Eni has agreed to sell its Beaufort Sea, shallow-water Nikaitchuq and Oooguruk oil fields on Alaska’s North Slope to Texas-based independent Hilcorp.As owner and operator of the…
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OPINION: Alaska’s ‘clean coal’ misadventure shows dangers of jumping aboard

The Alaska State Capitol building on January 18, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News) Alaska is a poster child for the catastrophic impacts of climate change, with…
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Federal judge confirms decision that stopped oil work in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Research biologists pause among the wetlands of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, with the Brooks Range in the…
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OPINION: Unpacking contradictions in Alaska’s hatchery debate

By Eric Jordan Updated: 3 hours ago Published: 3hours agoNearly 85,000 King salmon fry swim out of nets and around a 2,190-gallon tank of water as they adjust to life outside…
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Former Gov. Walker leads effort to take over Alaska’s gas pipeline megaproject

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation head Keith Meyer during a meeting in Beijing. (Photo courtesy Alaska Governor Bill Walker’s Office)For more…
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