Alaska could revoke leases for oil fields like Prudhoe Bay if top energy companies refuse to participate in a government natural gas pipeline plan, the Governor Sarah Palin has said. Exxon Mobil Corp, BP and ConocoPhillips together control more than 35 trillion cubic feet of known gas reserves on the Alaska North Slope.
But the companies […]

Oil companies have spent more than $1.4 million in recent months on advertising in Alaska a bid to win voter support for its views on oil taxes and a natural gas pipeline, according to new figures.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Association spent more than $800,000 on ads and public relations last Autumn. At the time, […]

Stuff the bears lets get drilling – that’s the message from oil giant Shell, which has emerged as the highest bidder for 275 lease blocks in the Chukchi sea offshore northwest Alaska. Shell’s bids amounted to $2.1 billion of the $3.4 billion bid overall.
The sale went forward over the protest of conservation and Native Alaska […]

As the US government invites tenders for oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea, just days before a ruling on whether the polar bear should be added to the list of endangered species, it is facing a new scandal.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility – PEER – has released internal emails from the Interior […]

A coalition of environmental organizations and Inupiaq native groups filed suit in a US federal court in Anchorage yesterday to force the Interior Department to do a new analysis of the environmental consequences of oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea, off northwestern Alaska.
The groups hope to stop plans to develop 29 million […]