In January, around 40 percent of employees at Trident Seafoods Akutan facility tested positive for COVID-19, followed by cases on its catcher-processor vessel
Kodiak Enterprise, at the company s Tacoma port.
Some 7,300 Alaska residents account for the 26,000 seafood processing workforce in the state, according to data from the McDowell Group (now McKinley).
Chris Barrows, president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association (PSPA), noted while the industry is thankful for the new inclusionary measure, the biggest constraint still is the lack of federal vaccine supply.
Dunleavy s office noted in the letter that industries with high numbers of seasonal, out-of-state workers place an additional burden on the Alaska healthcare industry, but said the state did not have enough vaccine doses at this point to allocate a specific portion to seafood and other industries.
By DAVE KIFFER - With future ferry service up in the air and the price of both barge shipping and air travel on the rise, you could certainly forgive Ketchikan residents for wistfully wondering how life would be different in Southern Southeast if a road connected Ketchikan to the rest of the continent.
To be sure, even if there was a road it would be at least a 1,500-mile trip to drive from Ketchikan to Seattle but that s the not the point. You could do it, even if it took several days.
It was during the expansion of the canned salmon industry in the 1920s and early 1930s, that the federal government began considering connecting Alaska to the rest of the country. Thomas MacDonald, who would run the Bureau of Public Roads from 1919 to 1953, first proposed a coastal highway between Seattle and Southeast Alaska in 1925.
Governor Dunleavy Delivers Third State of the State Address to Alaskans
(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy on Thursday night delivered his third State of the State address to Alaskans and the Legislature in which he emphasized the importance of self-reliance, energy independence, maximizing opportunities, and the need to guarantee the PFD for future generations.
Statewide COVID-19 Response:
I remember a meeting last spring with a few members of my amazing health team. We were on a video call with Hans Vogel who owns a manufacturing company in Palmer. We dumped a bunch of PPE and testing supplies on a table, and asked if there was anything here he could make. As we all know, Hans and Triverus ended up making over 100,000 swabs for testing when we needed them the most.
US designates Graphite One Project as “High-Priority Infrastructure Project”
Canada-based Graphite One Inc. announced that it received notice on 15 January 2021 that its Alaska-based Graphite Creek Project has been designated a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the US Government’s Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval is the culmination of a process that began with the nomination on 4 October 2019 by Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy of Graphite One’s project for High-Priority Infrastructure Project designation.
At full production, Graphite One’s proposed advanced graphite product manufacturing plant the second link in its proposed supply chain strategy is projected in its Preliminary Economic Analysis to convert Graphite Creek’s annual 60,000 tonnes of graphite concentrate into 41,850 tonnes of EV-battery grade Coated Spherical Graphite and 13,500 tonnes of purified graphite powders.
Graphite One Inc.: U.S. Government Designates Graphite One Project as High-Priority Infrastructure Project
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE /
(TSX-V:GPH)(OTCQB:GPHOF) ( Graphite One or the Company ) announced today that on January 15, 2021 it received notice that the Company s Graphite Creek Project has been designated a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the U.S. Government s Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval is the culmination of a process that began with the nomination on October 4, 2019 by Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy of Graphite One s project for High-Priority Infrastructure Project designation.[1] Designating the Graphite Creek Project as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project will send a strong signal that the U.S. intends to end the days of our 100% import-dependency for this increasingly critical mineral, said Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy in his nomination letter.