The beginning of a new year inspires reflection on the past and thoughts of the future. Businesses, industry leaders and economic organizations have plans for meetings in the first months of the year to map the challenges and opportunities for local, national and world economies.
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce is hosting two forums in January.
At The World Trade Center Economic Forecast Luncheon, scheduled for Jan. 17 at the JAHC, three speakers are scheduled to discuss how Alaska jobs and communities may be affected by the prospects of major industries and federal spending in 2013.
Pat Burden, president of Northern Economics, will present the statewide economic review and forecast for 2013.
He is scheduled to be joined by Gary Schlossberg VP of Wells Capital Management, who will give an update on the national and international economies.
Greg Wolf executive director of World Trade Center Alaska is scheduled to give a breakdown of Alaska’s exports.
The Chamber is also hosting its joint state and local chamber lunch at the Baranof Hotel on Jan. 24.
The Alaska State Chamber has made energy and natural resource extraction a major part of its 2013 state and federal legislative priorities. As part of its Southeast Alaska industry cluster initiative, the Juneau Economic Development Council is hosting the Innovation Summit at the Centennial Hall Feb. 11-13.
At the summit, “leaders in business, government and education join to cultivate ideas and develop strategies to strengthen key industries in our communities and region,” according to the JEDC.
Summit topics include developing talent, creating social value and government’s role in supporting innovation.
The event also schedules time for collaboration within the regional industry clusters. Industry clusters include ocean products, visitor products, forest products, renewable energy and mining services and supplies.
Find out more about the summit and register at www.jedc.org/innovation-summit.
• Contact reporter Russell Stigall at 523-2276 or at russell.stigall@juneauempire.com.
Comments (7)
Add commentClimate changeOcean
Climate change
Ocean acidification
Oil spills
Degradation of habitat
Loss of habitat
Loss of culture
Extinction
Foreign corporations
Foreign occupation
Pollution
Alaska No. 1 in the country for toxic waste release
Pollution concentrates in cold arctic waters and atmosphere
Our beloved Cook Inlet Belugas, (white whales) at the Anchorage port are filled with tumors from all the pollution allowed to be dumped there
Seals, walrus, hundreds dead others found with open soars around eyes, mouth, nose...
Walrus stampedes loss of habitat
Polar bears starving loss of habitat
Greed
Socializing risk taking while privatizing wealth
Public resources (our land & minerals) enrichng private corporations
Using public money to enrich private businesses ( example: marine passanger fees going towards private docks, etc.)
Sustainability
Ocean baloney arrogance
Simple minded
Natural
Process
Corporations owned without discrimination
Culture
Evolving
Fewer poor
Less starvation
More educated
Greater standard of living
Among the world
All shared...even with foreigners
Polar bear populations growing and healthy
Halibut destroyed and over fished by commercial interests
Salmon over fished for foreign corporations
Herring over fished for foreign interests
Boats using fossil fuels
Destroying fisheries
Polluting
Using our public fisheries resources to enrich a few private interests
Shell oil drilling rig
Shell oil drilling rig grounds off of Kodiak Island after towline fails - 150,000 gallons of diesel and 12,000 gallons of lube oil and hydraulic fluid on board...
"We are now entering into the salvage and possible spill response phase of this event,” Alan Wien of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said at the late night briefing.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/12/31/2739314/shell-drilling-rig-is-adrift-again...
"We learned that Shell and
"We learned that Shell and BSEE clearly do not yet have their act together on Arctic offshore drilling," said Rick Steiner, an expert in oil spill response and a retired University of Alaska professor and PEER board member".
"American watchdogs are not the only ones concerned. In September, a committee in the British Parliament voted to urge Shell to halt drilling until enhanced risk-reduction measures were in place. A few days later, Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of the oil drilling giant Total, told reporters he believed that the risk of an oil spill while drilling in the Arctic waters was simply too high".
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13540-watchdogs-say-us-regulators-are-not...
Fishing boats sink dec to clean up spills
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Regulators-say-2-boats-sink-in-Alaska-...
More pollution from fishing interests
Concerned
Let me edit and rephrase this comment:
You are correct regarding fisheries impacts on populations and pollution on habitat.
Why do you think we can affect those processes but not climate?
Why would you classify as "arrogant" the idea that we can affect something? It seems to me to be the exact opposite - to be humble is to be cautious about how we act and conduct ourselves, and to be arrogant is to do whatever we want and ignore the potential consequences.
@concerned - The CEOs in the
@concerned - The CEOs in the US are the ones sucking up all the money from free trade deals.