What does $164M buy Big Oil? Inupiat land and a broken promise.

In 2023, when Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Iñupiaq, was mayor of Nuiqsut, a federally recognized village of 500 residents on Alaska’s North Slope Borough, a gas leak from a nearby oil operation left her community waiting for answers. 

“It was only 8 miles from our village. We…