North Slope

Alaskan habitat mapped for polar bears.
A vast swath of icy sea, barrier islands and coastal land on Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope will be granted special protection because of its importance to the threatened polar bear, under a proposal released this week by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The agency proposes that 518,000 sq km of coastline and shallow Arctic Ocean waters be designated as critical habitat, a status of heightened protection afforded under the Endangered Species Act.

Todd Palin, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, holds Trig Palin at the governor's picnic in Anchorage, Alaska on July 25, 2009. Todd Palin resigned as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC effective Sept. 18. 2009 to spend time with his family.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin has high hopes for a multibillion dollar natural gas pipeline. One of her other legacies could be shaping the systems that let most Alaskans flip on a light switch.
Palin by the end of the month will propose a bill taking the first steps toward forming a state corporation to oversee power generation in the Railbelt, home to 65 percent of Alaska’s population.

Projected population growth along Alaska's Southern Railbelt.

Homecoming Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, her office adorned with banners and balloons, went to work in Anchorage Nov. 7 for the first time since joining the GOP presidential ticket.

Screenshot of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's emails which were hacked into last month.

Palin's image has changed, for better and worse, in the six weeks since she joined the McCain Republican presidential ticket.

A central gas facility located in the Prudhoe Bay field on Alaska's North Slope, which was proposed as a starting point for an Alaska Gas pipeline to the Lower 48 states.

Shelia Kaplan and Marilyn Berlin Snell, writing for The New Republic, outline Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s environmental record.

As the ice melts, fewer polar bears are able to survive at sea.
In an in-depth article by Los Angeles Times writer Kim Murphy, published on September 22, 2008, the environmental policies of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are summarized, as well as her position on developing oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).  

Wasilla, Alaska resident Anne Kilkenny wrote an extremely comprehensive, objective letter on the history of Mayor Sarah Palin and her political career starting in Wasilla, Alaska.  This letter has been published on a variety of internet forums and blogs nationwide over the past two weeks, but it is worth reprinting here for anyone who missed reading it the first time around.  Anne Kilkenny is a homemaker and education advocate in Wasilla, Alaska.  The letter was originally written to friends of Ms. Kilkenny, in which she shares her thoughts and observation about vice pres