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Alaska's Energy Desk covers energy and environment in the Last Frontier. With editors and reporters based at @KTOOpubmedia @akpublicnews @KUCBNews @KYUKNews

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Canada's decision to bar cruise ships until early next year has taken a bite out of Alaska's tourist season. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the state’s congressional delegation is working on a fix.

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Aspiring kelp farmers are lining up, but there's still only a handful of farms producing a commercial crop. Mariculture advocates say that it’s not easy building an industry from scratch, or a market for its products.

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Alaska’s Department of Fish & Game is raffling off permits for some of the state’s most desirable hunts. Officials hope the earnings will help make up for a decrease in hunting license sales during the pandemic.

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Last month, the state of Alaska’s investment authority agreed to put $35 million towards pre-development work on the controversial Ambler Road project.

Ambler Metals matched it and could get some of its investment back in toll credits.

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The Biden administration is continuing, at least for now, to defend the Trump administration’s land swap in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

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The Native Village of Kaktovik is critical of the Biden administration, claiming their tribe wasn’t consulted about an agreement President Biden made with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about protections of the Porcupine caribou herd in ANWR.

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For the fourth year in a row, tests showed that most Ketchikan beaches have elevated levels of bacteria that can make people sick. That happened this year even without dozens of cruise ships discharging wastewater.

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The Alaska Energy Authority plans to install between 10 and 14 electric chargers along the railbelt, from Homer and Seward to Fairbanks. Right now, sparsely distributed charging stations make electric vehicles impractical for long drives in Alaska.

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The missed deadline kills the corporation’s proposal to use seismic to search for oil in part of the Arctic refuge’s coastal plain this winter, a setback for drilling proponents.

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The Alaska Department of Natural Resources granted Donlin Gold water right permits after 15 days for comment. Some in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta claim that wasn’t enough time, especially as villages locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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A new study has found evidence connecting the rapid warming of the Arctic region with a physical decline in three species of Alaska seals.

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With President Biden issuing executive orders pausing oil and gas leases and permits, Alaska’s U.S. senators are seeing years of their accomplishments erased. Here are some of the options they may use to fight back.

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More than 200 researchers from around the country signed an open letter to the National Science Foundation last month requesting more Indigenous input on the foundation’s flagship initiative on Arctic warming.

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Hilcorp Alaska is looking to build two gas exploration wells near Anchor Point later this year.

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Marathon Petroleum’s plan for a Kenai liquefied natural gas plant will likely not harm endangered Cook Inlet belugas, according to a Jan. 25 letter from the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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A federal judge in Anchorage says she could rule as soon as Tuesday on a request by environmental groups to block the Trump administration from carrying out the first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Construction is set to start next spring on a solar battery project in the Northwest Arctic villages of Shungnak and Kobuk. It’s the latest renewable project for a region routinely struck by high energy costs.

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Oil company Hilcorp has received the last regulatory approval in its deal to buy the Alaska assets once owned by BP.

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The 2020 Arctic Report Card is out, and the results show the Arctic continues to warm at an accelerated rate. This year was the second warmest on record in the Arctic, with impacts to sea ice, erosion and marine ecosystems.

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