MOORHEAD (KFGO) - Former Fargo radio and TV journalist Doug Hamilton is among six people being inducted into the Moorhead High School Hall of Fame. Ha.
MOORHEAD (KFGO) - Former Fargo radio and TV journalist Doug Hamilton is among six people being inducted into the Moorhead High School Hall of Fame. Ha.
Company disputes Interior Department’s account of why its request to hunt for oil in ANWR was rejected
Print article An Alaska Native village corporation that hopes to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge fired back at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday, saying the agency is to blame for the corporation’s inability to conduct aerial surveys of polar bear dens this winter, a step required before the exploration can proceed. Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. asserted that the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the agency, mischaracterized the reason the surveys weren’t conducted on time, and asked the agency to apologize. The corporation is disputing an announcement from the department on Monday.
Alaska drilling project squashed by court decision was touted by oil-friendly former Trump official
The official’s comments, alongside the court’s ruling, cast doubt on the integrity of the Trump administration’s approval process for oil and gas development in Alaska.
This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administration’s approval for what would have been Alaska’s
first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how
the Arctic oil and gas facility would affect the climate and
polar bears.
The Department of Interior approved Hilcorp’s Liberty project in October 2018. However, months before the agency completed the