Energy & Mining

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority did not identify specific projects or a timeline for spending.

Owners can put off the costly process of tearing down the platforms using a strategy one critic calls “delay, deny and diddle around.” And in Alaska, the state has let them do it — for decades.

Peltola has joined Alaska’s U.S senators on a legal brief in support of the proposed Donlin Creek Mine in Peltola’s home region of the Kuskokwim Delta.

The Biden administration said the road, also known as the Ambler Access Project, would cause irreparable damage to wildlife including caribou, which many local people rely on for food.

The decision issued Monday is the latest in a long string of legal and administrative rulings against the project.

Currently, about 15% of Railbelt electricity comes from renewable sources — mostly hydro power.

Utilities say they have months, not years, to settle on a plan.

A leak in a pipeline transporting mine waste temporarily contaminated Johnson Creek in late January.

Oil is the state’s No. 2 source of general-purpose revenue, behind an annual transfer from the Alaska Permanent Fund.

Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regional Director Givey Kochanowski and Public Affairs Officer John Callahan met with dozens of lawmakers in Juneau.