June Issue 4 2012
SEWARD — Driving through a city as small as Seward, one can’t help but notice one of its tallest structures looming off of the sole highway near Resurrection Bay. This 121-foot wind turbine was built as a teaching tool for AVTEC, Alaska’s Institute of Technology, but has since become an extra power source for Seward.
The chance of building a bridge from Ketchikan to its airport on Gravina Island is remote, according to former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, given the project's national stigma as "the bridge to nowhere." He's suggesting an alternative — an underwater tunnel.
June Issue 3 2012
U.S. builders started work on more single-family homes in May and requested the most permits to build homes and apartments in three and a half years. The increase suggests the housing market is slowly recovering even as other areas of the economy have weakened.
ExxonMobil Corp. is set to begin construction this winter on its multi-billion-dollar gas cycling and condensate production project at Point Thomson on Alaska’s North Slope.
June Issue 3 2012
Gov. Sean Parnell signed two pieces of legislation June 12 to promote economic development in economically depressed areas and to facilitate financing for small to medium-sized energy projects in the state.
KETCHIKAN (AP) — Alaska Ship and Drydock has had 23 fewer people working in the Ketchikan Shipyard since May 1 and the company says the main reason is a seasonal slowdown in routine vessel repair and maintenance work.
ExxonMobil Corp. is set to begin construction this winter on its multi-billion-dollar gas cycling and condensate production project at Point Thomson on Alaska’s North Slope.
A University of Alaska Fairbanks parking lot on the main campus is the proposed location for a new home for engineering faculty and students.
Ten hearings are scheduled on a ballot initiative that would re-establish a coastal management program in Alaska.
May Issue 4 2012
U.S. builders increased their spending on construction projects for a second month in April. A pickup in home construction and commercial projects offset a fifth consecutive decline in government spending.
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