The Alaskan Energy for Jobs Act has been announced by the House Natural Resources Committee, which will open up the oil reserve in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Representative Don Young said that the Act would allow for “future energy production and job creation”. This Act is expected to be included in the recent [...]
Alaska Jobs
The Timber Task Force was created with the aim of discovering forested areas in Alaska that can be logged and milled. They were once part of the larger Tongass Futures Roundtable, but Gov Sean Parnell decided to separate and form the Task Force with its specific issues surrounding forestry and job creation. Currently the Task [...]
Hundreds of Alaska jobs may be created thanks to a huge rare earth’s project planned on Prince of Wales Island which will bring much needed strategic metals and a secure supply of resources to the State. The project will be a collaboration between Ucore Rare Metals and the city of Ketchikan, which is where the [...]
A new medical center is due to open in 2013 in Alaska, offering roughly 100 new Alaskan healthcare jobs in the Fairbanks area. The new medical center will service native Alaskans who live in the Interior Alaska region covering a 185 thousand square mile radius. The center will be known as the Chief Andrew Isaac [...]
Over 54,000 oil and gas jobs could be created in the industry in Alaska, if the production levels return to the way they were before the moratorium was introduced. This is according to the president of the US Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Donahue. He is trying to urge the US Congress and President Barack Obama [...]
Broken Arrow will soon be getting 300 aviation jobs thanks to the expansion of aviation company Flight Safety, whose products include the manufacture of flight simulators. The city relies on the aviation employment currently offered by the company and has encouraged them to stay in Broken Arrow by offering a great incentive package totaling $6 [...]
Fish processing is a huge business in Alaska and as such there are plenty of fish harvesting and fish processing jobs available – not only for locals, but for foreigners as well. In fact you are more likely to find people who speak Spanish, Russian, French, or Japanese working on the Alaskan fishing vessels. Many [...]
U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement and Regulation (BOEMRE) has given the Shell Oil Company conditional approval to begin drilling exploration oil wells in the Beaufort Sea as of July 2012. This approval has been given with the condition that Shell obtains all the necessary legal permits from relevant environmental agencies upon a full [...]
According to the latest NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Status of U.S. Fisheries Report, the Alaska fishing industry is on its way to being rebuilt. Senator Mark Begich, the Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard chairman, was pleased with the findings and praised the, today praised the Alaskan fishing industry [...]
In a recent unemployment report, Alaska is once again well below the average for unemployment in the country with Fairbanks having the lower unemployment rate at just 6.5 % according to the Department of Labor. At the same time last year the rate was 6.8 %, so things are getting better and better all the [...]
