Investor Presentaiton
Alaska's geography creates and constrains
opportunities for Alaska's economy.
Alaska's geography-its location, climate, topography, and resources-have driven Alaska's
economy in the past and define and constrain its opportunities for the future.
Alaska has abundant natural resources-oil, minerals, forests, fish. In the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, Alaska's strategic location has contributed to the role of the military and
more recently the international air cargo industry. Another Alaska natural resource--its
natural beauty-represents an increasingly important natural resource.
But Alaska's remoteness from major markets, cold climate, mountainous topography, and
permafrost make Alaska a costly place to extract resources compared with other parts of the
world.
In areas with permafrost, buildings like this facility at Prudhoe Bay need to be built on
pilings to keep the permafrost underneath them from melting.View entire presentation