An international partnership aiming to boost Alaska’s broadband connectivity is over as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.London-based OneWeb, an emerging global satellite broadband company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy March 27, effectively ending a deal the company had just made with Anchorage-based telecom Microcom.Microcom founder Chuck Schumann announced in mid-January an agreement to be a distributor of space on for Alaska and Hawaii through Microcom’s broadband subsidiary Pacific Dataport Inc.A statement on OneWeb’s website says the company had been in advanced negotiations for...…An international partnership aiming to boost Alaska’s broadband connectivity is over as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.London-based OneWeb, an emerging global satellite broadband company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy March 27, effectively ending a deal the company had just made with Anchorage-based telecom Microcom.Microcom founder Chuck Schumann announced in mid-January an agreement to be a distributor of space on for Alaska and Hawaii through Microcom’s broadband subsidiary Pacific Dataport Inc.A statement on OneWeb’s website says the company had been in advanced negotiations for...WW…

The Roadless Rule survived nearly 20 years of legal challenges in Alaska but not the Trump administration.U.S. Department of Agriculture officials published a new regulatory framework for Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in the Federal Register Oct. 29 that established during the final days of the Clinton administration in early 2001.The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which originally prohibited new roads across roughly 58 million acres of forestland nationwide, largely put a stop to new infrastructure across approximately 9.4 million acres of the Tongass. At about 17 million...…The Roadless Rule survived nearly 20 years of legal challenges in Alaska but not the Trump administration.U.S. Department of Agriculture officials published a new regulatory framework for Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in the Federal Register Oct. 29 that established during the final days of the Clinton administration in early 2001.The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which originally prohibited new roads across roughly 58 million acres of forestland nationwide, largely put a stop to new infrastructure across approximately 9.4 million acres of the Tongass. At about 17 million...WW…

A new front is forming in the ongoing battle over the Pebble mine concerning lands up to 50 miles from the proposed project site.Many opposed to the world-scale copper and gold mine insist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is affording the Pebble Partnership special treatment under the Trump administration, which they claim is now manifesting itself in a new transportation plan that Pebble currently doesn’t have access to develop.On May 22, Army Corps Alaska District Regulatory Chief David Hobbie announced the agency had identified a road route along the north shore of Iliamna Lake to a port...…A new front is forming in the ongoing battle over the Pebble mine concerning lands up to 50 miles from the proposed project site.Many opposed to the world-scale copper and gold mine insist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is affording the Pebble Partnership special treatment under the Trump administration, which they claim is now manifesting itself in a new transportation plan that Pebble currently doesn’t have access to develop.On May 22, Army Corps Alaska District Regulatory Chief David Hobbie announced the agency had identified a road route along the north shore of Iliamna Lake to a port...WW…