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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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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…

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Cook Inlet Energy fined for safety valve violations

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — the state regulatory oversight group for the hydrocarbon industry —…

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Hilcorp gas pipeline leaking into Cook Inlet

A damaged underwater pipeline is leaking between 210,000 and 310,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day into…

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Consultant raises concerns about Alaska gas project

JUNEAU — A legislative consultant has raised red flags about Alaska taking the lead on a major proposed…

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AGDC president presents local case for LNG

With the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation officially the sole player in developing an export project for North…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion An array of photovoltaic solar panels generate electricity from the winter sunlight at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Wednesday, Jan. 4 in Soldotna.

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Kenai Wildlife Refuge beginning to track solar energy

When the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge opened its new visitors center in May 2015, one new feature was…

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Hilcorp seeks Falls Creak Area expansion

Oil and gas company Hilcorp Alaska wants to add about 40 acres of land to a gasfield located…

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AGDC meets in Kenai

The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation is moving forward with its transition into leadership of the Alaska LNG Project.…

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Hilcorp plans new gas wells near Ninilchik

The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas has approved a Plan of Operations for Hilcorp Alaska to develop…

Graphic by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion This map, taken from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Parcel Viewer and modified by the Peninsula Clarion with information from Homer Electric Association's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license application for the Grant Lake Hydroelectric project, shows the existing route of the Iditarod National Historic Trail in blue and HEA's proposed reroute of the trail in pink, as well as the powerhouse and water-diversion tunnel HEA plans to build.

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Officials consider recreational impact of HEA’s Grant Lake hydroelectric project

In one possible future, a footbridge may cross Grant Creek about a half mile from Grant Lake, its…

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Alaska LNG Project to move forward, with changes

Fieldwork in Nikiski is winding down and future plans are uncertain for the Alaska LNG Project as the…

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Oil spill reported at Hilcorp’s Drift River Terminal

The state is investigating an oil spill reported at Hilcorp’s shipping terminal on the west side of Cook…

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Alaska LNG Project water testing to occur in August

The Alaska LNG Project is moving forward with an aquifer pump test on its land in Nikiski this…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion BlueCrest Energy Chairman Bob Israel speaks during the ceremonial opening of BlueCrest Energy's Hansen Production Facility - visible in the background - on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at BlueCrest's wellpad north of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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BlueCrest opens Anchor Point oil wellpad with ceremony

BlueCrest Energy has ceremonially opened their Hansen Production Facility, an oil wellpad on the shore of Cook Inlet near…

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BlueCrest answers questions on oil fracking

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct the height of BlueCrest’s drill rig. The rig’s platform is…

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Furie readies to drill in northern Cook Inlet

Residents and visitors to Nikiski might notice a new silhouette on the skyline of Cook Inlet as the…

BlueCrest sells first oil

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BlueCrest sells first oil

BlueCrest Energy sold its first barrel of oil from its new Cosmopolitan development last week to the Tesoro…

A Pelton waterwheel, similar to those that spin Bradley Lake's two turbines, sits in a storage area on Friday, April 15 at the Bradley Lake power station. Created in the 1870s, Pelton wheels have an efficient paddle design that can extract almost all energy from a flow of water. This wheel was removed from the turbine due to stress at the base of the paddles.

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Bradley Lake maintenence complete

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct an annual rate orginally described as a monthly rate.…

Clarion file photo Louis Cassens, a project engineer with Heartland Technology Partners, works on a leachate thermal evaporation unit Monday March 17, 2014 at the Central Peninsula Landfill in Soldotna. The landfill is commissioning a feasibility study to expaine other uses for the gas that the machine currently evaporates, one of which could be to operate the machine itself.

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Landfill plans for expansion, gas use

A few changes proposed for the Central Peninsula Landfill will not only make it bigger but possibly provide…