Early settlers in the West, especially those adventurers who traveled north to Alaska, relied on sourdough to leaven bread before commercial baking powder and yeast were readily available.
He took us to the far north of Alaska, where some of the research took place.
After "eruptive activity" last year at the Cleveland volcano, University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Steve McNutt noted that 90% of air freight from Asia to Europe and North America flies over Alaska airspace, and hundreds of flights fly through Anchorage's air space daily.
They also propose more pipelines to move natural gas into the lower 48 from Alaska's North Slope, and would move to hold down price increases that may be put in place by Western electricity providers.
North Dakota is expected to pass California and Alaska to become the second-highest oil-producing state, behind Texas.
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Edward S. Itta served as the Mayor of the North Slope Borough of Alaska from 2005 to 2011.
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Wind farms are proposed in numerous gusty zones from Maine to North Carolina, while tides strong enough to produce power are confined to Maine and Alaska.
It also announced plans to boost investment in the North Slope fields in Alaska after the Alaskan Legislature lowered taxes on the oil industry.
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Encouraged by Arctic governments and dwindling reserves elsewhere, oil companies are flocking north like migrating geese to explore the continental shelves of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.
It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
In 2006 corrosion in its pipelines led to a sizeable spill on Alaska's North Slope.
The company that operates the Trans Alaska Pipeline told operators on the North Slope to cut crude production by 95%, after discovering an oil leak.
Since 2008 North Dakota has surpassed Oklahoma, California and Alaska to become the second-biggest oil-producing state in the nation (after Texas), with production upwards of 700, 000 barrels per day.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day--13% of U.S. demand--to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day 13% of U.S. demand to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
The decline in production from mature oilfields in the North Sea and Alaska also means that replacement supplies will have to be hauled longer distances by sea to the refineries of Europe and North America.
This week it seemed poised to allow Shell to start prospecting in the icy waters off the north coast of Alaska.
Having managed her state's department responsible for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, having negotiated a long-delayed natural gas pipeline through Canada to the Lower 48 and having been married for nearly two decades to a blue-collar worker in Alaska's North Slope oil fields, she knows more about the subject than all three of the others on the two parties' tickets put together.
Shell first obtained licences from the US Department of the Interior in 2005 to explore the Arctic ocean off the northern and north-western coasts of Alaska.
The U.S. Navy has deployed two nuclear-powered submarines off the coast of Alaska close to a temporary camp constructed on the ice roughly 150 miles north of Prudhoe Bay.
Hence decades worth of hand-wringing over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the (current) closing of large areas of the North Slope to oil drilling.
Separately, in August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, signed a bill allowing TransCanada Alaska to build a 1, 715-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to Alberta, Canada.
The reconstructed Antarctic map is more complete than the corresponding map for the Arctic where the team had to contend with more gaps in the Nimbus coverage, including around the Canadian Archipelago and north of Alaska.
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The latest sea-surface height measurements reveal unusually cool water (shown as blue and purple) and sea levels that are two to seven inches below normal, extending from the Gulf of Alaska along the coast of North America.
Through the years, Brower had a profound impact on America's wildlands by helping to create national parks and seashores in Kings Canyon, the North Cascades, the Redwoods, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island and Point Reyes.
Besides 100 interceptor missiles at a single site in Alaska, the Clinton Administration plan calls for a potential second site in North Dakota, with up to 150 more interceptors, as well as the option of supplementing both sites with ship-based defenses that could also provide some measure of defense for U.S. allies.
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