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Walker touts tax to push AK LNG
Walker touts tax to push AK LNG
By James Brooks • September 30, 2015 12:29 pm

“I’m not trying to buy love. I’m trying to sell gas.” So declared Gov. Bill Walker in a press conference…

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Hilcorp acquires more inlet oil assets
Hilcorp acquires more inlet oil assets
By Tim Bradner • July 9, 2015 11:05 am

Hilcorp Alaska will purchase XTO Energy assets in the Middle Ground Shoal of Cook Inlet and is also studying a…

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Analysis: Governor’s firing of 3 AGDC board members may backfire
Analysis: Governor’s firing of 3 AGDC board members...
By Tim Bradner • January 21, 2015 4:48 pm

The state’s political and resource communities are still buzzing about Gov. Bill Walker’s sudden firing Jan. 6 of three Alaska…

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BP Alaska plans layoffs in 2015
BP Alaska plans layoffs in 2015
By BECKY BOHRER • September 17, 2014 1:19 pm

JUNEAU — BP Alaska, a major player in the state’s oil industry, on Monday announced plans to lay off 275…

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Alaska LNG Project buys land, secures access around Nikiski
Alaska LNG Project buys land, secures access around...
By Tim Bradner • August 6, 2014 12:45 pm

The Alaska LNG Project LLC has purchased 120.4 acres from private landowners for a large liquefied natural gas plant at…

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Official links gas project, referendum
Official links gas project, referendum
By BECKY BOHRER • July 16, 2014 1:41 pm

JUNEAU — The decision Alaska voters make on an oil-tax referendum next month could have implications for a proposed liquefied…

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Senate panel hears Exxon Valdez funding measure on spill anniversary
Senate panel hears Exxon Valdez funding measure on...
By BECKY BOHRER • March 26, 2014 2:31 pm

JUNEAU — On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Senate Judiciary Committee took up a resolution…

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Remembering Prince William Sound
Remembering Prince William Sound
By Sally Wills • March 20, 2014 2:46 pm

I wrote this song, Water and Oil Don’t Mix, (watch video below) for the approaching 25th year anniversary of the…

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Protesters hold signs along the Homer Spit during meetings involving Exxon in the months after the spill.   -File photo
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
March 19, 2014 5:41 pm

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound —  “fetched up,” in the words…

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Exxon Valdez oil spill: 25 years later
Exxon Valdez oil spill: 25 years later
By Findlay Abbott • March 19, 2014 5:24 pm

Truth is one of the first casualties of war, and in Alaska, truth was the first casualty of the Exxon…

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After the spill: Sound ‘recovering’
After the spill: Sound ‘recovering’
March 19, 2014 5:18 pm

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Twenty-five years after the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March…

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Oil from the Exxon oil spill remains on Prince William Sound beaches. As proof, Harrison Metz, Coda Wood, Terry Gilliland and Austin Cline have a jar of the oil collected from Eleanor Island during August 2013.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
Fireweed students give fresh eyes to a 25-year-old...
By McKibben Jackinsky • January 29, 2014 5:44 pm

They might not have been born when it happened, but ask the fifth- and sixth-grade students at Fireweed Academy about…

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Alaskans file to repeal Senate Bill 21
Alaskans file to repeal Senate Bill 21
By Dan Joling • April 24, 2013 1:01 pm

BANCHORAGE — A new non-partisan group seeking repeal of an oil tax cut says the measure approved by state legislators…

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