48 North Solutions
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Team
  • Services
    • Natural Resource Services
    • Regulatory Services
  • Featured Projects
    • Stream Restoration
    • Long-Term Biological Monitoring
    • Submarine Cables
    • Fish Exclusion
    • Renewable Energy
    • ICEX2016
  • Our News
  • Current Events
  • Contact

Current Events

Alaskans fly south for Arctic symposium

1/15/2016

 
Alaska Public Media-

The University of Washington School of Law is hosting policymakers from Alaska and around the country for discussions on Arctic security and politics, development, transportation and shipping, environmental protection, and climate change.
The third annual Arctic Encounter Symposiumruns Friday through Saturday in Seattle.
Elected Alaska officials, academics, municipal and Native corporation representatives, and some of the Coast Guard’s top officers are expected to attend.
Bethel Rep. Bob Herron is part of a panel that will discuss development of a port system, and improving communications and mapping of the Arctic. He said they’ll also talk about reducing heating costs, developing adequate water and sewer systems for Arctic communities, and responding to the effects of climate change.
“I think that we have to remind them that maybe we are the best to be deeply involved, and not to take us for granted,” Herron said.
Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, Anchorage Sen. Lesil McGuire and Craig Fleener, the Walker administration’s Arctic policy adviser, are some of the other Alaskans participating in panel discussions or addressing the conference.
Herron is attending again this year in his role as chair of the House Economic Development, Tourism & Arctic Policy Committee. He admits to being annoyed whenever he hears comments from nonresidents that imply that Alaska needs saving from Alaskans.
“We’re not someone’s convenient snow globe so they can look inside the snow globe and see all these little fur-clothed, subsistence people living in a zoo, in a museum, in an environment where they must protect it,” Herron said. “There’s a couple times where I’ve felt that I’ve been patted on the head and they’ve said, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll take care of you.’”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell, co-chair and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee respectively, will also attend the symposium.
Herron said it’s good that the symposium is being held in Seattle this year.
“We’ve got to bridge this Pacific Northwest, western Canada future,” Herron said. “You can’t separate Alaska from the Arctic. You can’t separate Alaska from our Canadian neighbors. And, even though we’re not directly connected to the Pacific Northwest, we still have all that history.”


Original Story

Comments are closed.

    News

    We want to share the news we're reading with you. From the Pacific Northwest and beyond, we're interested in what's happening in our environment. 

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    April 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    November 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015

    Categories

    All
    Arctic
    Climate Change
    Marine
    Marine Renewable Energy
    Regional
    Restoration
    Salmon
    Underwater Noise
    Water
    World

    View my profile on LinkedIn

    RSS Feed

48 NORTH

​About
Contact Us
Privacy Policy 



© COPYRIGHT 2022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Photos public domain or property of 48 NORTH staff
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Team
  • Services
    • Natural Resource Services
    • Regulatory Services
  • Featured Projects
    • Stream Restoration
    • Long-Term Biological Monitoring
    • Submarine Cables
    • Fish Exclusion
    • Renewable Energy
    • ICEX2016
  • Our News
  • Current Events
  • Contact