Theo Greenly
Senior ReporterTheo Greenly is a reporter and Report for America corps member. He got his start in public radio at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. Since then, he's produced radio stories around the country, worked on podcasts at NPR, and contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Science Friday and NPR's Invisibilia. When not reporting, he’s probably looking for someone to go hiking with. Wanna go for a hike?
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Unalaska was the closest it had ever been to achieving its decades-long goal of developing geothermal energy from Makushin Volcano just a few miles from town. But difficulties meeting investment deadlines have led to the end of the Makushin Geothermal Project.
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The City of Unalaska is pulling out of the Makushin Geothermal Project, after the city council on Tuesday rejected the new terms requested by the company building the project.
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The City of Unalaska’s administration is advising city council not to renew the Makushin Geothermal Project power purchase agreement, according to a memo released Friday, which would effectively end the city’s four-year participation with the project.
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Unalaska is closer than ever to building a geothermal power plant on Makushin Volcano, but the project is facing investment challenges and the city is weighing its options.
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The Genius Star was on a cross-Pacific trip to San Diego before the Coast Guard directed the ship to Unalaska. There, responders boarded the vessel and contained the fire.
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A former police chief of the remote Pribilof community of St. Paul was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. The victim’s mother, Stacy Bourdokofsky, hopes this will help the family move on, but stops short of calling the sentence “justice.”
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Nearly 100 tribes and communities in western Alaska, including the Association of Village Council Presidents, signed their support for an emergency petition that would set a zero bycatch limit on chinook salmon in the pollock trawl fishery for 180 days, a move Unalaska Mayor Vince Tutiakoff Sr. said would “effectively shut down the entire pollock fishery of the Bering Sea,” and create a “dire situation” for Unalaska.
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The cargo ship that caught fire on Christmas and has moored in Unalaska Bay is moving into port
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is giving the Aleutian Islands community of King Cove $888,789 for a new boat hoist, an action it says will support the region's fishing industry.
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Alaska pollock’s “A” season opened saturday. That’s when the pollock trawlers set out into the Bering Sea to scoop up the whitefish that keeps Unalaska’s lights on.