The uncertain future of Cook Inlet natural gas supplies has the Interior Gas Utility turning its focus to the North Slope and a proposed 20-year contract with Harvest Midstream, a company owned by Hilcorp. Liquefied natural gas would be shipped to Fairbanks by truck.
Read MoreHank Nuwer, the new managing editor of the Daily News-Miner, is a veteran author and teacher from Indiana who has long owned 15 acres outside of Tok.
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The near-term revenue prospects for the state from carbon sequestration are signifiant, but not in the billions or the hundreds of millions, according to a state consultant’s report that is happily devoid of the over-aggressive sales pitch that Gov. Mike Dunleavy has adopted. The report calls for three pilot projects that would bring the state about $8 million a year.
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Carbon sequestration holds potential as an income source for Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is right about that. But Dunleavy keeps overselling this as a miracle money machine that will cost the state nothing to get going and will generate enormous returns in short order, $7 billion over the next decade.
Read MoreThe proposal by the EPA this week to reject key parts of the state air plan comes against the backdrop of a fifth federal lawsuit filed against the agency because it has missed deadline after deadline in coming up with a workable plan over many years.
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EPA questions the state claim that modifications to existing power plants are not feasible because they are so expensive. This has serious implications for the Fairbanks area. The health consequences of breathing polluted air also have serious implications for the Fairbanks area.
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I’ll say this much for the effort to overturn the Two Rivers fire service election—the proposed assembly ordinance makes it clear that this is not about election irregularities, a mistake in a newspaper story or any of the other excuses invented to disguise the truth.
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Under the guise of protecting property rights, Tammie Wilson and Jimi Cash are taking aim at a key provision in local law that makes Fairbanks more livable, raises property values and protects local trails for hiking, running, mushing, skiing, snowmaking and all-terrain vehicles.
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Since the sale of BP’s Alaska assets to Hilcorp, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has done nothing to fix a glaring loophole in state tax law, which has made it easy for the Legislature to do nothing, a government failure that amounts to an annual gift of tens of millions or hundreds of millions a year to HIlcorp owner Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand.
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Alaskan John Reeves, who never tires of stirring the pot, is trying to set off a “bone rush” in New York City for a valuable load of mammoth tusks from Fairbanks that was dumped in the East River in 1940.
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