Episodes

  • Check out Cruise Town

    Check out Cruise Town
    Nov 7 2019
    If you liked Midnight Oil, you'll surely like Cruise Town, a new podcast from KTOO about Juneau, Alaska -- a town of 32,000 people, playing host to over a million cruise ship passengers every year. It explores how Juneau became a cruise town, what it’s like to live in a cruise town and what the city’s future holds in light of the industry’s explosive growth.
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    3 mins
  • Bonus: The Neighbors

    Bonus: The Neighbors
    May 9 2019
    Alaska is on the verge of a new oil boom -- and the village of Nuiqsut is right in the middle. Oil development is affecting Nuiqsut more than any other indigenous community in Alaska. And the village faces tough choices. How do you maintain a way of life when the oil industry is knocking on your door?
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    30 mins
  • Bonus Episode: Coming Soon

    Bonus Episode: Coming Soon
    May 3 2019
    Midnight Oil is back! Alaska is on the verge of a new oil boom -- and the village of Nuiqsut is right in the middle. Oil development is affecting Nuiqsut more than any other indigenous community in Alaska. And the village faces tough choices. How do you maintain a way of life when the oil industry is knocking on your door? Reporter Elizabeth Harball tells the story in a bonus episode of Midnight Oil coming May 9, 2019.
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    1 min
  • Paying Dividends, Ep 1: Making Good

    Paying Dividends, Ep 1: Making Good
    Feb 13 2019
    Alaska’s new governor promised to pay dividends of more than $6,000 when he was running for office. But delivering on that promise isn’t going to be simple. It might not even be possible, because the legislature that holds the permanent fund’s purse strings. What do lawmakers think about Dunleavy’s promise? Will they work with him or against him to balance the budget and pay big dividends?
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    24 mins
  • Our new podcast: Paying Dividends

    Our new podcast: Paying Dividends
    Feb 12 2019
    Midnight Oil listeners know that Alaska’s an oil state and that Alaskans get a personal cut of the state’s oil wealth every year in the form of a dividend. But oil prices are way down and the state has a multi billion dollar budget deficit. Our new podcast ‘Paying Dividends’ explores the struggle our governor and lawmakers face to keep paying those oil checks and also keep the state running.
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    1 min
  • Ep. 5: The Culprits

    Ep. 5: The Culprits
    Sep 6 2018
    Climate change is now an undeniable reality for the oil industry. It threatens their reputations,  their business models - and in some cases, the actual physical infrastructure they’ve built to extract all that oil in the first place. That’s forcing the industry to confront some uncomfortable questions.
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    26 mins
  • Ep. 4: The Visitors

    Ep. 4: The Visitors
    Aug 30 2018
    As polar bears lose their habitat in the Arctic, they have no choice but to come to shore and try to live part of their lives on land. That means they come into the village of Kaktovik sometimes, breaking into people’s houses or food storage at the risk of getting shot. But it also means they are more visible and accessible than ever for tourists who are willing to pay a lot of money to see them before they’re gone.
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    23 mins
  • Ep. 3: The Fishermen

    Ep. 3: The Fishermen
    Aug 23 2018
    For years, fishermen in Alaska have worried that climate change would threaten their livelihoods. Now, it has. In late 2013, a strikingly warm mass of water arrived in the Gulf of Alaska and stayed for three years. Scientists called it "the blob." Fishermen started to notice a drastic drop in the population of cod- an unassuming fish that’s been an economic powerhouse for the community of Kodiak. As fishermen struggle to adjust to the lowest cod numbers on record, scientists are asking if it’s a preview of what’s to come as the ocean warms.
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    20 mins