The mining industry in Southeast Alaska has taken off in recent years. And as mining has grown as a sector of the local, regional and state economy, the University of Alaska Southeast has embarked on a mission to meet the demand for new mine workers.
...Legislature's passage of tax reform is a "giveaway" to oil companies.But everything is not fine. A massive oil and gas boom is underway in the Lower 48 and just about everywhere else in the world - including hydrocarbon basins previously in decline...
...Speck (Outfield). Speck is the voice of the team and carries a big bat. The team owes a lot of its recent success to the boom that comes out of his voice and his bat.No. 22 - Kurt Vandor (Leftfield). Co-captain Vandor has been the Crimson Bears...
...S. Air Force over sonic booms produced during training exercises...complaints have been made because of booms produced during night Red Flag-Alaska...affairs office says one sonic boom was reported Monday and three on Tuesday. The booms were heard from Fairbanks to...
...in 1974 during construction of the pipeline and, like many of you, I remember the cash people were making and the economic boom that rocketed across the state. We all want the benefits from that pipeline to last, and we know there's plenty of oil in...
...replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production.The new draft rule relies on an online database used by Colorado and 10 other states to track the...
...a documentary on bee colonies called "More Than Honey (June 17); a documentary called "The Good Son" about Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini; and "Broken," with Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy (June 24).The Gold Town's preview series is the latest...
...said. "This required Pacific Pile and Marine to specifically construct a crane that had both the lifting capability and the boom length to manage these huge piles."Schaal also noted the LED lighting system that has been incorporated at the harbor that...
...families are all alike," Tolstoy wrote. "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." And so it is with financial booms and busts. The prosperity we enjoyed until last year looked like previous upswings: easy credit, rapid financial innovation...
...resisted developing oil, gas and timber on land it owns in the state, even as an oil boom occurs on private land in in the Lower 48."The so-called oil boom? It's all been on private land, nothing, zippo is on federal land," Murkowski...
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