Alaska’s Embattled Economic Development Agency Approves $700,000 PR Budget

Alaska’s embattled economic development agency approves $700,000 PR budget

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, whose headquarters are pictured here, is leading state efforts to develop oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to build roads to mining deposit in the Mat-Su and Northwest Alaska. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)The state agency leading some of Alaska’s most polarizing development projects has approved a new communications budget, saying it needs to do a better jo…

Alaska’s embattled economic development agency approves $700,000 PR budget - The Alaska Current

Amid continuing opposition to its oil drilling and road projects, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority says the public should know about its less controversial small business loan programs.