{"id":1209,"date":"2010-12-03T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2010-12-03T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:33:11","slug":"northern-waters-task-force-meeting-in-barrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Northern Waters Task Force Meeting in Barrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to Barrow this week to attend the second meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housemajority.org\/coms\/index.php?c=104\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Northern Waters Task Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Alaska\u2019s northernmost community, Barrow\u00a0is a good location to consider Alaska\u2019s interests regarding arctic issues.\u00a0 The meeting featured public testimony from the community as well as presentations on arctic transportation, communications, and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held in conjunction with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwer.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Pacific Northwest Economic Region<\/a>\u00a0(PNWER) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwer.org\/WorkingGroups\/ArcticCaucus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Caucus<\/a>.\u00a0 The joint meeting was a great opportunity for U.S. and Canadian leaders to discuss arctic issues and begin to identify solutions to future challenges to development.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed our time in Barrow\u00a0and look forward to continuing the task force\u2019s\u00a0work to put Alaska at the forefront of U.S. Arctic Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to Barrow this week to attend the second meeting of the Alaska Northern Waters Task Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,7,41,35],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arctic","tag-bert-stedman","tag-northern-waters-task-force","tag-pnwer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}