JUNEAU Amid a worsening state fiscal outlook, legislation that would raise more revenue from the oil and gas industry has been introduced in the Alaska Senate.
Alaska’s banks are on solid footing and lack the problems that have caused other banks to fail in recent weeks, industry observers say. The banking crisis sent shockwaves through global markets and raised questions about how far the fallout will spread.
The Biden administration’s decision to approve an $8 billion ConocoPhillips Alaska oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska swiftly drew both celebration and condemnation in Alaska and Outside.
The Biden administration has approved a massive oil development project on Alaska’s North Slope, and said it is adding new environmental protections to limit future oil development in several areas of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
The law firm of Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP announced that Anna Chapman Crary is now a partner in the firm. Chapman Crary began her legal career in Alaska clerking for Superior Court Judge Anna M. Moran in Kenai. She went on to practice with a defense litigation firm in Anchorage and joined Landye Bennett Blumstein in January 2015 as an associate. Chapman Crary received her