I attended the Alaska Forum on the Environment the week of Feb. 6-10, and here is a list of the sessions attended with some notes describing their pertinence. Besides attending the sessions, the networking was very beneficial. I was also able to meet with several federal employees that I’ve been working with concerning several of our projects. On Wednesday I met with Ryan Maroney with NRCS and discussed the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) projects and our plans to fulfill our obligations with the timber harvest scheduled over the next few months. Ryan suggested we fill out an application for [Read More...}
Apr 202012
Notes From The March AVCP Salmon Summit
Environmental
Comments Off
Apr 202012
I attended the AVCP Salmon Summit from March 6th-8th, which focused on ways to conserve Chinook salmon and develop ways to incorporate more tribal involvement in salmon management. The meeting was filled with numerous presentations by state and federal agencies (i.e., ADF&G, USFWS and NOAA). Personally I was somewhat disappointed with some of the presentations because they weren’t tailored to the audience very well. There could have been lots of good information disseminated to the majority in attendance who’ve never participated in the Salmon Management Working group over the years; as is often the case, several presentations were too technical [Read More...}
Apr 202012
Nova Gold recently made the announcement that they, along with Barrick, would soon be submitting the Permit Application to the State of Alaska to move the Donlin Gold project forward to the next stage. It’s anyone’s guess just how long the permitting process will take, but being such a large project it could possibly take four years or more. In the announcement it’s stated that the construction phase would employ 2,000 people while the operating mine would employ between 500 and 800 for over twenty years. We’ve all seen how Donlin Gold has strived to hire locally, and the mine [Read More...}