Kigluaik Mountains News Today

As the last of extra chairs—hastily distributed to accommodate the unexpectedly large turnout—were filled, a projector screen glowed at the front of the room. Over 60 people gathered at Old St Joes to hear an update from Graphite One, a company building a mine to the north of Nome near the Imuruk Basin.

A push is being made to protect a rare flower thats only found on the Seward Peninsula. Dive Alaska pulled almost 4,000 pounds of trash from Whittier Harbor. And Trekkies

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare Arctic plant called the Alaskan glacier buttercup under the Endangered Species Act.

80% of food comes from surrounding lands and waters for Alaska Native communities off road system.

Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change that. But some of the people who live nearby fear it will endanger their way of life.

While opinions in the nearby Alaska Native villages of Brevig Mission and Teller are mixed, there are significant pockets of opposition, particularly among the area’s tribal leaders.

Opinions in nearby Brevig Mission and Teller are mixed, though there are significant pockets of opposition to a graphite mine.

Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change that. But some of the people who live nearby fear it will endanger their way of life.

Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change that. But some of the people who live nearby fear it will endanger their way of life.

Vancouver’s Graphite One (TSXV: GPH; OTCQX: GPHOF) has won a US$4.7 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) to develop […]