Archive for December 2025

By Dave Norton The seal of the State of Alaska. (ADN archive) This year, Alaska celebrates 70 years since our state constitution was created. And yet the official state seal that was adopted then fails to acknowledge Alaska’s Indigenous identities and all of our state’s resources. State seals are official symbols used to visually represent…

On December 1, 1962, a pivotal moment in Alaska’s energy history unfolded when the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal) drilled the Beluga River Unit #1 well and uncovered what would become one of the state’s most productive natural gas fields—the Beluga River gas field, located just north of Cook Inlet and approximately 40 miles…