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...
The next Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting will be held: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:00am-12:00pm Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center 3605 Cartwright Court,...
