The community of Adak depends on its fish processing plant for jobs and tax revenue. But they’ve struggled to keep the lights on over the years.
Now, the plant’s latest operator is looking for new partners to help shoulder the financial burden.
The Adak Cod Cooperative formed in 2013, when two businessmen with experience in salmon fisheries decided to branch out.
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Signs of a huge investment in the past abound here. The huge storage buildings, long docks for ships, and stylish suburban housing for thousands of military personnel and families are nearly all empty, following the end of the Cold War between the United States and former Soviet Union. The Naval Air Facility closed in the 1990s because of the absence of an enemy that made the remote site’s high maintenance costs worthwhile, thanks to fear as a funding source.
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Oil and gas development in the Arctic could bring some major changes to the city of Adak. On Tuesday, Offshore Systems Inc and several subsidiaries of the Aleut Corporation signed an agreement to collaborate on developing the former military base as a support hub for Arctic oil drilling. OSI spokesperson Jim Butler says the community is a logical place for future development.
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The speech that follows was presented by Thomas Mack, president of the Aleut Corporation at the Arctic Imperative Summit in June at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska.
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An Alaska Native regional corporation is applying to the state for rights to support bulk water exports to thirsty Asian markets.
Anchorage-based Aleut Corp. wants to withdraw up to 500,000 gallons per day from each of three freshwater lakes on Adak Island, a former Navy outpost midway out the Aleutian chain some 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
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