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A Little More Conservation David Benton, head of the Marine Conservation Alliance, answers Grist's questions		28 Aug 2006	InterActivist
David Benton. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm executive director of the Marine Conservation Alliance, based in Juneau, Alaska. What does your organization do? MCA is a nonprofit organization established by the Alaska seafood industry that promotes sustainable fishing. America has an increasing appetite for healthy seafood, but we must be sure that ...
Topics: Alaska, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life (all these topics)

The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling As only makes sense following a disaster in northern Alaska involving oil spills and corroded pipelines, the Bush administration next month plans to open 8 million northwestern Alaska acres to oil and natural gas development. The area, in the National Petroleum Reserve, co ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

God Hates BP BP hits more snafus in Prudhoe Bay		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
God Hates BP BP hits more snafus in Prudhoe Bay Beleaguered oil giant BP has halted leak testing on pipelines in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field after learning that workers may have been exposed to asbestos. Since a major spill in the oil field in early March, as many as 200 workers have been stripping insulation off of corroded pipelines to ready them for leak testing. Asbestos, which can cause lung disease or cancer if ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, toxics (all these topics)

Being exploited? Exploit them back.	Corey McKrill	21 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Tomorrow, Alaska's primary election will include an important ballot measure that imposes new regulations and taxes on the cruise ship industry. For environmental protection, it includes beefed-up regulations that will hold cruise corporations more accountable to Alaska's strict pollution controls, as well as allowing civil action suits against violators. For economic growth, it proposes a head tax on all cruise passengers coming into the state, the revenue of which w ...
Topics: Alaska, legislation, politics, travel, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Hey Man, Nice DOT More Alaska drilling proposed as DOT considers new pipeline regulations		17 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Hey Man, Nice DOT More Alaska drilling proposed as DOT considers new pipeline regulations Spurred by oil giant BP's many Alaska leaks, the Department of Transportation will soon propose tighter rules for minor petroleum pipelines. BP's North Slope lines were exempt from certain federal regulations because they operated at low pressure in a rural area, and weren't near commercially navigable waters. ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Transportation, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

So Much For 'Beyond Petroleum' BP pipeline fubar fallout continues		10 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
So Much For "Beyond Petroleum" BP pipeline fubar fallout continues Oil giant BP is weathering a ginormous poopstorm over its discovery of severe corrosion in an Alaskan oil pipeline and subsequent announcement that it would shut down its entire Prudhoe Bay oil field -- 8 percent of total U.S. production -- while it repaired the damage, which could take until January 2007. Alaska governor Frank Murkowski, whose state co ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Wouldn't Be Prudhoe BP shuts down major Alaskan oil field; poop to hit fan		07 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Wouldn't Be Prudhoe BP shuts down major Alaskan oil field; poop to hit fan Oil giant BP will temporarily shut down production at its Prudhoe Bay oil field, after "unexpectedly severe corrosion" and a small spill were discovered in an oil transit line on Sunday. That could mean trouble: the Prudhoe field represents nearly half the production from Alaska's North Slope, some 400,000 barrels a day, about 8 percent of total ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Nothing to Seep Here, Folks BP shuts down wells on North Slope after whistleblowers report leaks		19 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing to Seep Here, Folks BP shuts down wells on North Slope after whistleblowers report leaks Oil giant BP is voluntarily shutting down 12 oil wells on Alaska's North Slope after employees alleged they were leaking. Whistleblowers told London's Financial Times that in some places, insulating material used to keep pipes from freezing -- usually crude oil or diesel -- had spilled onto the tundra. BP spokesflack Daren Beaudo sai ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other We can't think of anything funny to say about this: polar bears, deprived of their natural food by longer seasons without ice, may be turning to cannibalism. In the journal Polar Biology, American and Canadian scientists reviewed three cases of polar bear cannibalism in early 2004 in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. The kills included a mama ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound Wildlife in Alaska's Prince William Sound is still threatened by oil spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989. According to a new study by researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service, some 100 tons of oil still pollute the sound shoreline and are potentially accessible to forag ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Corrode to Perdition BP closes two more North Slope pipelines		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Corrode to Perdition BP closes two more North Slope pipelines Oil giant -- oops, beyond oil giant -- BP is shutting down two more of its pipelines on Alaska's North Slope, at the expense of 22,000 barrels of crude (worth some $1.5 million) a day. Neither pipe had leaked yet, but BP officials have been monitoring serious corrosion problems, treating the pipes with chemicals to prevent further deterioration. The two pipes will lik ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Spinning Isn't Everything; It's the Only Thing Alaska looks to controversial PR firm to promote Arctic Refuge drilling		18 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Spinning Isn't Everything; It's the Only Thing Alaska looks to controversial PR firm to promote Arctic Refuge drilling In the face of broad public opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska legislature has ... abandoned its push for drilling? Don't be silly! No, the legislature's hired a PR firm to sell the joys of drilling to a skeptical public. The firm expected to get the job, Pac/West Co ...
Topics: Alaska, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

A Fit of Leak Another BP pipeline leaks in Alaska		18 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
A Fit of Leak Another BP pipeline leaks in Alaska Hot on the heels of last month's big oil spill, British petro-giant -- sorry, beyond-petro giant -- BP has confirmed that another pipeline ruptured on Alaska's North Slope on April 6, leaking 12,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The leak occurred at the same Prudhoe Bay oilfield as last month's 200,000-gallon oil spill, but was small enough th ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

How Not to Prove Your Innocence BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska		06 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
How Not to Prove Your Innocence BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska When your massively profitable oil company is under criminal investigation by the U.S. government for possible violations of the Clean Water Act, it's not a good idea to spill tens of thousands of gallons of crude onto the Alaskan tundra. So oopsie at BP. Turns out that fe ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Leak Shall Inhibit the Earth Northern Alaska pipeline leak may rank as one of region's largest		10 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
The Leak Shall Inhibit the Earth Northern Alaska pipeline leak may rank as one of region's largest Cleanup crews have been working in subzero temperatures to sop up crude oil and soiled snow near northern Alaska's Prudhoe Bay after what looks to be one of the largest spills ever in the region. The source of the crud(e) was discovered last Thursday by a BP oil worker: a quarter-inch rupture in the trans-Alaska ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, land degradation, news, oil (all these topics)

I Know You Are, Senator, But What Am I? Pro-drilling Alaska rep aims to punish anti-drilling Washington senators		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
I Know You Are, Senator, But What Am I? Pro-drilling Alaska rep aims to punish anti-drilling Washington senators In the august halls of government, an unwritten rule has been passed down over the years: If the other kids play mean, don't invite them over. Alaska state Rep. Kurt Olson (R) has sponsored a resolution in the Alaska legislature to end a ferry service that carts about 30,000 people a year between Alaska and W ...
Topics: Alaska, news, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Girl Juneau It's True Alaska guv wants to hire PR firm to burnish state's freeloading image		14 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Girl Juneau It's True Alaska guv wants to hire PR firm to burnish state's freeloading image Alaskans are widely perceived as freeloaders who suck tax money off the federal teat and plunder wild lands for profit, but that could all change if they hired the right PR person. Ha ha ... oh, wait, really? "Alaska does not just take. We give," said Gov. Frank Murkowski (R), a tad defensively. He wants to hire a public relations firm to help ...
Topics: Alaska, news (all these topics)

Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts When President Bush said "America is addicted to oil," we thought ... wait, did we say this already? Yesterday, the administration proposed new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida, Virginia, and Alaska -- including areas covered by a long-standing moratorium on offsh ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans, Virginia (all these topics)

Exxon Lax Exxon posts record-breaking profit, tries to evade Exxon Valdez penalty		31 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Exxon Lax Exxon posts record-breaking profit, tries to evade Exxon Valdez penalty ExxonMobil has announced that it reaped $36 billion in profits for 2005 -- the largest single-year profit ever by any American corporation. In related news, last week Exxon lawyers asked a federal court to effectively waive $5 billion in punitive damages related to the massive 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, meant to compensat ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, news (all these topics)

OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration's lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it's going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to dri ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby	David Roberts	22 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has spent the last week or so -- nay, the last 25 years -- attempting to circumvent the clearly and repeatedly expressed preferences of a majority of U.S. citizens by allowing oil drilling to take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The latest attempt involved attaching drilling to the defense appropriations bill, in effect holding military funding hostage in the middle of an armed conflict. We have perhaps become num ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Stevens and the defense bill	David Roberts	19 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Update [2005-12-19 14:47:12 by David Roberts]: Oops, I forgot the obvious: To try to stop this thing, please write your Senators. As forecast last week, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) managed to get Arctic Refuge drilling attached to the defense spending bill. He couldn't wrangle it into the budget reconciliation bill, so this is his last-ditch effort. He has said: Katrina will be on this [defense] bill. That's what makes the defense bill a little bit a ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Arctic Refuge drilling to be attached to defense appropriations bill	David Roberts	15 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Oh crap. From Congressional Quarterly: Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens said Thursday that House and Senate appropriators have agreed to attach drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to the Defense bill in conference, though it is unclear if he can muster the 60 votes needed to end a filbuster on the legislation that the move would provoke. 'We've agreed to put ANWR on it so we'll just have to wait and s ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, legislation, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, US Senate (all these topics)

The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears		15 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears OK, we're trying to keep a positive outlook here, but ... drowning polar bears? Seriously? And just when therapy was starting to work. In September 2004 (the year the polar ice cap receded a record 160 miles from Alaska's north coast), federal researchers doing routine aerial surveys counted 10 bears swimming in the open ocean as far as 60 miles off Al ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds		02 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds The first comprehensive study of "bycatch" -- unwanted fish caught and discarded by commercial fishing operations -- has confirmed the worst fears of conservationists: Over a fifth of all fish caught by U.S. commercial fishers, around 1.1 million tons, are tossed out every year. Commis ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, news (all these topics)

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