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Wednesday
October 15, 2003
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photo by Dick Kauffman
Ketchikan: Marine
Highway considering a move to Ketchikan - State transportation
officials are mulling a plan to move the Alaska Marine Highway
System here to be closer to its repair facilities. - Read
more... Alaska: Sen.
Stevens Testifies On The UN Convention On The Law of The Sea
- Senator Ted Stevens testified Tuesday at a Senate Foreign Relations
Committee hearing on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Stevens spoke in support of the Convention, provided that certain
concerns are adequately addressed. The concerns outlined by Stevens
are: that potential surpluses of U.S. fish stocks must not lead
to arguments by foreign nations to gain access to these marine
resources; deep seabed claims by Russia on the Arctic Shelf;
and, that provisions of the Convention be specific to avoid future
misinterpretation. - Read
more... Ketchikan: The Ketchikan School Board will hold a special meeting Wednesday at 6:00 pm in the City Council Chambers for the purpose of swearing in newly elected Board Members and to reorganize the Board (election of officers). Calendar Alaska: Crab
group hires son of Alaska senator - The Seattle-based industry
group that is campaigning to gain rights to purchase most of
the Bering Sea crab harvest has put the son of U.S. Sen. Ted
Stevens on its payroll. - Read
more... Alaska: Crabbing
industry faces a sea change; Critics of plan fear loss of jobs
- At dusk nearly every fall day, wind rakes across this fishing
outpost, sending temperatures plummeting like a ship's anchor.
But even as it gusted and thumped the windowpanes outside a conference
room crowded with crabbers a few nights ago, it was no match
for the icy stare fixed on Steve Toomey's face. - Read
more... Alaska: Congress
set to scrap floor price in Alaska - The U.S. Congress
is poised to scrap a controversial floor price guarantee for
a proposed $20-billion (U.S.) Alaska natural gas pipeline as
it completes work on a sweeping energy bill. The move would be
a victory for Canadian natural gas producers, including Toronto-based
Imperial Oil Ltd., which is the lead partner in a group proposing
to build the $5-billion (Canadian) Mackenzie Valley pipeline
project. - Read
more... Alaska: No Alaska pipeline gas subsidy in U.S.
energy bill -
Oil companies will
not get a tax credit from the federal government guaranteeing
a minimum price for natural gas that would flow through a proposed
$20 billion Alaskan pipeline, the head of the Senate Energy Committee
said on Tuesday. - Read
more... Alaska: $13.36
Million Released By NOAA For Programs In Alaska - Some of
Alaska's coastal programs will soon benefit from more than $13
million in funds from the Department of Commerce. The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration informed Senator Ted Stevens
that funds for the projects and programs have been released.
... "These funds will help our fishermen market Alaska's
seafood, continue sound management of our fisheries, and support
the important work being done at the Alaska SeaLife Center,"
said Stevens. - Read
more...
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