Mining for New Technology
From more efficient trucks to AI managing massive data, all levels of new tech in mining allow the industry to produce the raw materials necessary for society to pursue everything from reliable, affordable energy to advancing smart technology.
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BP, UAA Partnership Seeks to Create Opportunities for Future Engineers in Alaska
BP is investing more than $280,000 in UAA’s College of Engineering and the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program in 2019.
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Alaska Credit Union League Donates $15,000 to Upper Susitna Food Pantry
The Alaska Credit Union League held its annual meeting in Talkeetna and during that meeting, auction proceeds and individual donations made for a total donation of $15,000 to the Upper Susitna Food Pantry.
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A Sleepless Walk Under the Midnight Sun
Mark Ross, a naturalist at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks, invented the cross-country, solstice-celebrating AlaskAcross—a nonstop 60-mile hiking traverse in northern Alaska, from Lost Creek to Eureka.
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Downtown Summer Solstice Festival Welcomes First-Ever Mocktail Garden
The Sober Garden at this year’s Downtown Summer Solstice Festival promises to take Solstice festivities up a notch with one of a kind mocktails made by Anchorage’s favorite bartenders.
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June 2019
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Mining for New Technology
From more efficient trucks to AI managing massive data, all levels of new tech in mining allow the industry to produce the raw materials necessary for society to pursue everything from reliable, affordable energy to advancing smart technology.
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Transforming Transportation
By the end of the year Span Alaska will be operating a newly constructed terminal to increase efficiency and better serve its customers, and the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Port of Nome are both pursuing projects that will build economic opportunity for the communities they serve.
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Ravn Air Picks Up PenAir
The Ravn Air Group is launching a “new” PenAir, following the acquisition of PenAir’s assets by investment affiliates of J.F. Lehman & Company for $12.3 million.
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The Alaska Marine Lifeline
Despite mountains of data, piles of studies, hundreds of voices, passionate communities, involved business leaders, and engaged politicians, somehow the AMHS is apparently an unresolved—or unresolvable—problem.
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June 27 @ 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Alaska Business Week
July 8 - July 12
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Featured Events
How Becoming a Certified Women-Owned Business Can Help Grow Your Revenues
The federal government’s annual goal is to award at least five percent of all federal contracting dollars to women-owned small businesses.
July 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 p.m.
2019 Best of Alaska Business Awards
We’re celebrating the fourth annual Best of Alaska Business awards! Right now is your chance to vote for your favorite business in a wide range of categories. Winners will be published in the July 2019 issue of Alaska Business.
July 11 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Industry Featured
KTUU Wins Top Honor for Overall Excellence at Regional Emmy Awards
Channel 2, KTUU-TV was honored with three regional Emmys, including the most prestigious award for Overall Excellence at the NATAS Northwest Regional Emmy Awards in Seattle.
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Tim Woolston Hired as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Alaska USA FCU
Alaska USA Federal Credit Union has appointed Tim Woolston as their new Senior Vice President of Marketing.
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The Sound of Silence in Russell Fjord
While the tides stopped in Russell Fjord, the meltwater from glaciers did not. During the five-month closure, water within Russell Fjord and the connected arm of Nunatak Fjord crept upward.
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State Answers FERC Questions About Cook Inlet Pipeline Crossing
The state-led gas line development team has told federal regulators it is confident the Alaska LNG project’s steel pipeline could withstand Cook Inlet’s strong currents, shifting seabed, and traveling boulders along the 29-mile underwater route to the gas liquefaction plant in Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula.
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In This Issue
The Alaska Marine Lifeline
June 2019
The current conversation Alaskans are having was spurred by Governor Mike Dunleavy’s initial budget proposal for 2020, which would cut funding to the AMHS by 75 percent and essentially end most operations by October.