Alaska and United Arab Emirates Share Focus on Energy and Generational Resilience
Worlds apart but so close, United Arab Emirates points the way down a parallel track for Alaska’s future as a fellow petro-state.
Worlds apart but so close, United Arab Emirates points the way down a parallel track for Alaska’s future as a fellow petro-state.
Lawmakers finished an operating budget and enacted new legal frameworks for childcare, interior design, and big game hunting.
Governor Mike Dunleavy signed legislation addressing healthcare, timber sales, military affairs, and motor vehicles.
General themes for the 2024 Alaska Sustainable Energy conference included global connections, equitability, and tempered expectations.
Lawmakers finished a $6 billion operating budget and enacted new legal frameworks for energy, health insurance, and natural resources industries.
Alaska and the Yukon territory agreed to improve the section of the Alaska Highway from Kluane Lake to the border, bolstered by $31 million in funding recently approved by the Federal Highway Administration.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai talked about collaboration, joint investments, and salmon at the Arctic Encounter Symposium last week.
The State of Alaska is investing $1 million for an Alaska Feed Grain Reserve Program to improve food and animal feed security for Alaskans. The money will be used to purchase feed grains grown in Alaska, by Alaskan farmers, to be stored, sold, and replenished in perpetuity.
Marketing campaigns and transferable skills are some of the tools available to deepen Alaska’s labor pool for impending infrastructure projects.
Streamlined regulations are now in place for the next generation of nuclear reactors, which could power Alaska communities or industrial sites as early as 2027.