Tag: coal
Museum Memories
The East Coast-based Alaskan Syndicate struggled with their Katalla route. Open to the Gulf of Alaska and its fierce weather, the docks and breakwaters...
EVOS given a May 28 deadline to buy coal rights
For years a number of Alaskans have urged use of Exxon Valdez oil spill recovery funds to retire the Bering River coalfield patent from...
Coal mining, oil and gas wells nixed by federal court
A federal court in Great Falls, Mont., has found unlawful a Bureau of Land Management plan allowing coal mining and oil and gas drilling...
Museum Memories: Feb. 10, 2017
Born of high hopes upon the discovery of oil in 1902, Katalla was deemed a city of the future. Enthusiastic developers drilled oil wells...
Bering River Coal Field area protected from mining
Editor’s note: This article was written by the communications staff of Chugach Alaska Corp.
In 2016, Chugach sold its coal rights within the Bering River...
Alaska power plant expected to be ready in 2018
FAIRBANKS — An Alaska coal plant created to generate low-cost electricity is expected to be operational next year, plant owners said.
Golden Valley Electric Association...
PacRim Coal halts permitting for mine
Backers of the controversial Chuitna Coal Project in the Beluga coal field some 45 miles west of Anchorage have suspended all permitting activities, state...
Sullivan applauds order to overturn EPA water regulation
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has posted on social media his approval of President Trump’s executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency to dismantle former...
Congress rolls back protecting streams from coal mining
Alaska’s congressional delegation has voted with the Republican majority to overturn a rule that blocks coal mines from discharging waste into streams.
The U.S. Senate...
Bering River Coal Field rights retired
In a groundbreaking decision announced on Jan. 25, a large portion of coal rights for the Bering River Coal Field, 55 miles southeast of...
