The primary goal of our Alaska's Wild Resource Web is to provide accurate, up-to-date information on natural resource issues, with a particular focus on Alaska. Currently we have sections with detailed articles on Coal and Metals Mining. We are currently working on developing sections on Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Forestry, and Fisheries.
Below are a list of articles that don't easily fit any of these categories.
This article discusses the issues associated with the perpetual storage of things like nuclear waste, coal combustion wastes, and mine tailings.
Non-Renewable Energy in Alaska
This article summarizes some basic information on non-renewable energy sources in Alaska
Project Chariot was an abandoned 1950's proposal to use hydrogen bombs to blast a new harbor at Cape Thompson in northern Alaska.
Resource Extraction on the North Pacific Coast
This article was researched and written in 2007 as part of the preparation for our year-long Journey on the Wild Coast. One of the goals of this trip was to see many of these issues for ourselves, and to weave them together into a narrative aimed at understanding natural resource issues facing the Northern Pacific Coast. Some of the text and links have been updated with more recent information.
The subsistence harvest of wild resources is important to the livelihood and culture of many Alaskans, both Native and non-Native.
Here we discuss the meaning of the term "True Cost" and the factors that make up the difference between the market price of a commodity and the comprehensive cost of that commodity to society.
True Cost of Electricity Generation
Subsidies and externalities are not included in the sticker price of electricity. Here we discuss calculations of both, and how they affect our view of clean versus cheap sources of electricity.
By David Coil, Erin McKittrick, Bretwood Higman, Ground Truth Trekking
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Date Created: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:30:49 -0800
Last Modified: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:27:08 -0800
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