Dog days of summer.

AuthorHarrington, Susan
PositionFROM THE EDITOR

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Welcome to the dog days of summer. No, it doesn't mean we get to lounge around on the porch napping in the hot sun. In Alaska, it means we work like dogs to get everything ready before winter hits. In the oil and gas industry, that may mean exploring and drilling, or not. ConocoPhillips is investing, but not heavily, in Alaska. We're coming to a crossroads with natural gas and LNG may be the way to go. Cook Inlet is heating up with activity--Liberty is not. (Stories begin on page 42.)

In the construction industry, August brings ramped up work across the state, some of which we've covered in our quarterly Building Alaska special section (begins on page 66). We've included project updates, a story about women building houses, taken a look at an Alaska Railroad project up north, and started an infrastructure bucket list. We discovered that in addition to roads and bridges and buildings, a lot of the work going on this summer involves wind farm construction, so we explored several aspects of this with stories about the construction of wind farms, the dynamics of wind energy, and the transportation of the components--talk about oversized freight!

August is also a month with long days of field work for mitigation, remediation, site investigations, environmental studies...

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