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Chuitna Coal no longer seeking permits
As of March 31, the Delaware-based PacRim Coal “has suspended all permitting activities” related to its project to…
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Meeting to consider response to Sports Lake elodea
How to respond to the discovery of the invasive waterweed elodea in Soldotna’s Sports Lake will be addressed…
Environment
Hilcorp to reduce flow in leaking gasline, halting production on two platforms
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with an estimated future leak rate as a result of the…
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Pipeline rate settlement helps decrease HEA bills
Edit: This story has been updated with additional information on Kenai Beluga Pipeline’s 2015 traffic. A settlement in…
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HEA to pay out credits to members
Homer Electric Association plans to start paying out credits to approximately 10,000 members who bought electricity from the…
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Kenai passes moratorium on grave reservations
Kenai’s cemetery plots can belong only to the dead, following the Kenai City Council’s unanimous decision on Wednesday…
Environment
Hilcorp to monitor Cook Inlet gas leak
Hilcorp plans to observe the methane release from its leaking Cook Inlet pipeline by using sensor buoys to…
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Hilcorp ordered to inspect crude pipeline near leaking gas line
Federal pipeline safety authorities have ordered Hilcorp Alaska to inspect the underwater crude oil pipeline running adjacent and…
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Meet the HEA Board of Director candidates
Three seats on Homer Electric Association’s nine-member Board of Directors are each being sought by two candidates. The…
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Contracts and power pooling issues in HEA’s future
The three people elected this year to the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors will be part of…
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No injuries in Soldotna trailer fire
Central Emergency Services extinguished a burning trailer in Soldotna’s River Terrace mobile home park on Monday afternoon. The…
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Stock: In Alaska, travel bans affect soldiers, oil workers, families
After President Donald Trump released his Jan. 27 executive order suspending people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering…
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Borough to explore emergency services fix
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly took a first step Tuesday toward securing emergency services in an area that…
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Kenn Carpenter appointed to Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly
Kenn Carpenter, a procurement specialist at Seward’s AVTEC vocational training school, will represent Seward, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass,…
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Hilcorp given May 1 deadline to repair leaking pipeline
Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct a typographical error: its statement that the 2014 pipeline leaks…
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‘Integration and independence’: Activists raise awareness for programs for people with disabilities
For 30 years the disability services activists of Alaska’s Key Campaign have been holding annual statewide demonstrations in…
Environment
DEC: Hilcorp must sample and monitor underwater gas leak
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is requiring Hilcorp Energy Company to begin sampling and environmental monitoring of…
Environment
Ice could delay Hilcorp leak response until late March
Hilcorp’s plan to send divers to repair a damaged underwater gas pipeline — which is leaking between 210,000…