Nome mayor touts his city’s infrastructure, services as a head start in the Arctic port race

“I don’t want to pooh-pooh others, but I think we’re a lot more ready.”

By Yereth Rosen April 10, 2018
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Nearly three years ago, Royal Dutch Shell yanked its ambitious project to drill for oil offshore in the icy Chukchi Sea, progress toward developing a top-quality Arctic Alaska port stalled. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, which issued a draft version of a study into potential port sites, put that project on the back burner.

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