Nuiqsut (Inupiaq: Nuiqsat, IPA: [nuiχsɐt]) is a city[4] in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States.

[5] Nuiqsut is in the North Slope Borough on the Nechelik Channel, about 35 miles (56 km) from the Beaufort Sea coast.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.2 square miles (24 km2), all of it land.

Since May 2018, ConocoPhillips has officially requested to develop the so called Willow project oil field from the Bureau of Land Management.

Kuukpik submitted comments to the draft Environmental Impact Statement reducing drill sites to four, shorter gravel roads and requesting protection of Teshekpuk Lake amongst other things.

In March 2023, then Mayor Rosemary Ahtuangaruak opposed the project, because of impacts on caribou and subsistence lifestyle.

The school facilities also serve as an emergency shelter for the community in times of power outages.

In the early 1970s, the village was re-established,[clarification needed] when the residents moved to the region from Utqiaġvik.

The dividends are passed from the original shareholders on to the community member of their choice (often parent to child).

[citation needed] Native traditions such as hunting (whale, caribou, fox, ptarmigan, etc.)

[15] In 2023, Nuiqsut officials criticized the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) public input process for ConocoPhillips so called Willow project, as the BLM denied to extend the public comment period without explanation.

For many native residents, the dividends are the primary, or only, source of income, but the region's local development and global fossil fuel-generated climate disruption has had major negative impacts on their traditional hunting, fishing and whaling activities.

[16] Permafrost thawing, rising sea levels and warming of the Arctic Ocean present a cash-versus-culture conundrum to the inhabitants.