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Look forward, Alaska, not back Author: Andy Moderow Published December 22, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article Alaska is epic. We’ve got a lot of good going for us, and I believe we’ll figure out a way to have a bright future. That said, we also have a long history of failed megaprojects and failed attempts by our state politicians to manipulate the free market. Now, faced with a legally questionable and flawed plan to sell more than 1 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Re...

The agency refused to tell the public the nature of the confidential matter. Had the agency wanted to fill in the public about its secret plans, the meeting announcement would have mentioned the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But it didn’t. AIDEA now wants Alaskans to believe that it was not trying to hide its plan to spend up to $20 million bidding on federal oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before the end of the month. Alan Weitzner, executive director of AIDEA, tells ...

Wed, 12/23/2020 - 9:08am Gov. Mike Dunleavy prioritized injecting money into a battered economy over solving the state’s ever-worsening structural fiscal problems in his 2022 fiscal year budget but that doesn’t mean he didn’t attempt to save the state some money. The administration wants to split nearly $50 million in unrestricted CARES Act funds into $35 million towards the state’s annual Medicaid payment and $14.6 million for general Department of Transportation funding as well as uti...

Print article Alaska’s state-owned economic development corporation is proposing to spend $20 million for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. Alan Weitzner, director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, said Monday that the corporation’s board of directors will be asked on Wednesday to approve up to $20 million for bidding on leases being offered by the federal Bureau of Land Management. AIDEA could make minimum bids on all avai...

What Is Going On With Rare Earths Going Into Next Year? Smartphones, laptops, wind turbines, electric cars, and medical devices — you name it. Theyre also widely used in defense technology, like jets and guided missile systems. Neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and terbium, for example, are all used in high-strength permanent magnets. They are used in virtually every modern vehicle and aircraft, and they improve efficiency and reduce size and weight. The guidance systems used by missiles a...

Singh is one small player in a perfect storm engulfing supply chains across the globe and particularly our region. Ports of Auckland (POAL) unload the equivalent of two-thirds of a Constantinos P container-load every day, but ships are still waiting an average of nine days at sea thanks to port issues around staffing, automation and an influx of goods. The Constantinos P is stretching Northports facilities to the brink including using up half of the ports available berths and forcing drivers...

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:10am A helicopter hovers over a camp at the Pebble mine prospect in this 2010 file photo. The decade-plus fight over the project appears to be nearing an end after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the compay’s proposed mitigation plan in November. (Photo/Andrew Jensen/AJOC) The Pebble project ended the year on life support after the Army Corps of Engineers handed down strict wetlands mitigation requirements the company was not able to meet. From the outside things...

But exporters said the same thing often happened overseas. For example, a ship heading for Australia could be diverted between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, requiring slow and costly land transit of goods back to their original destination. Horticulture Export Authority chief executive Simon Hegarty said the problem was even more widespread than that. "There is a significant amount of congestion for shipping around the world," he said. "In New Zealand, Australia and Asia, vessels are not able...

The freight chaos that has plagued Northland is often replicated overseas, according to exporters. Police teams are stopping trucks that are going south from Whangārei to make sure theyre not over the weight limits. Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers This brings huge costs to New Zealand producers, and some horticultural exports have been ruined by delay. The problem in New Zealand stemmed from the diversion of a ship from the crowded Auckland port to Whangārei, which required a convoy of trucks to ...

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company's 1-for-10 share consolidation, as previously described in the Company's press releases dated October 20, 2020 and December 3, 2020, is now effective . Trading of the Company's shares on a post-consolidated basis commenced at market open on Friday, December 11, 2020.The Share Consolidation was approved at the Company's Special Meeting of Shareholders ...