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Richard A. Fineberg (1941 – 2024) was an independent investigative journalist in Alaska specializing in issues related to petroleum development. As a PhD student at Claremont Graduate School in 1968, he conducted research on the Delano grape strike, ascertaining that grape growers were substituting immigrant and other impoverished labourers for workers who had joined the strike.[1] In 1971, shortly before leaving his post as a political science professor at the University of Alaska Juneau, he joined the Phyllis Cormack expedition by Greenpeace to protest nuclear weapons testing on Amchitka Island. He later said that he viewed testing so close to the border of the Soviet Union as an act of aggression.[2] Subsequently, he became a senior advisor to the Governor of Alaska on oil and gas policy, and consulted for government agencies at the state and federal level.[3]

Born on Sept. 9, 1941, in St. Louis, Missouri, he graduated from Beloit College in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree.[4] Fineberg died on September 27, 2024, at the Pioneer Home in Fairbanks, Alaska.[5]

1. ^ Salandini, Victor (1972). "Breakthrough in Coachella Valley" (PDF). Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971–1972, Part 3B, Land Ownership, Use, and Distribution (Report). Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. pp. 1441–1443: 1442.
2. ^ "Richard Fineberg". The Province. November 29, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
3. ^ Biography in The Future of Oil: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2010. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-16-087156-6.
4. ^ Sandomir, Richard (November 1, 2024). "Richard A. Fineberg, Relentless Skeptic of Alaska Pipeline, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
5. ^ Wight, Philip. "OPINION: Richard Fineberg's profound but little-known Alaska legacy". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 16 October 2024.