The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was a response to a growing awareness of environmental degradation in the U.S. in the form of polluted waterways, diminished air quality in cities, acid rain from coal-fired power plants, and more. NEPA provided a...
Dot Lake Village President Tracy Charles-Smith has written a position statement explaining the Village’s opposition to mining man-camps. There will be a man-camp in Tok (the old Westmark hotel) to house mining personnel at Manh Choh and possibly a second one...
The Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT) is updating the Interior Alaska Transportation Plan (IATP). The IATP is a 20-year regional multimodal transportation plan that will guide future public investments in transportation infrastructure in the interior Alaska...
[Richard Tilly, a long-time Fairbanks resident and retired building contractor, wrote the following and has given ASAH permission to publish it.] In recent months, there have been numerous topics in our local and national news which are a concern for many of us living...
Kinney Engineering provided an update to the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the DOT Tetlin-Ft. Knox Corridor Study on May 16. Their safety analysis predicts accidents will increase in 2024 when the large ore trucks begin hauling gold ore 240 miles from the Manh...
