Energy & Mining

The governor expressed optimism about a bill on carbon storage and other energy provisions but was pondering next steps on royalty relief bills that failed to pass.

The report says mines are allowing day traders and Canadian taxpayers to assume most of the financial risk, while a much smaller group of shareholders reaps the rewards.

A new federal study reflects growing interest in injecting and storing climate-warming carbon pollution in underground reservoirs in Alaska.

NANA Regional Corp. supports mining development in the region, but it objects to the way the road project is being managed by the state entity sponsoring it.

That’s as gas producers warn that Cook Inlet natural gas supplies are dwindling, threatening higher prices.

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.