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IGU Field Construction Reaches No Lost Time Injury Milestone
60,000 man hours worked with no lost-time injuries Fairbanks, AK – Three companies working to install over 70 miles of high-density polyethylene pipe have reached a construction milestone in safety with over 60,000 man hours [...]
Wanted – a few more candidates: Uncontested races run risk of damaging civic engagement
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial News-Miner opinion: The state of Alaska and communities of the Fairbanks North Star Borough are at a crossroads in a time of financial hardship. The next five years will do much [...]
Filing period is over for local elections, five races uncontested
By Amanda Bohman abohman@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — By the time the window closed at the borough clerk’s office on Monday, the last day to file for local office, two more people had filed but five of [...]
Gas Offers have come in
IEP team considers Fairbanks gas supply options; AG says no to LNG facility sale ALAN BAILEY, Petroleum News The Interior Energy Project, an Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority initiative to bring affordable energy to Fairbanks [...]
LNG purchase denied by AG after Hilcorp rejects new terms
BY TIM BRADNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards has rejected the proposed purchase by Harvest Alaska of a small liquefied natural gas plant at Point MacKenzie, and the action is drawing [...]
Local election filing period off to a slow start
By Robin Wood rwood@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Candidate filings for local offices have begun to trickle in since the filing period opened Monday. Fairbanks North Star Borough Two candidates have expressed interest in becoming the Fairbanks [...]
Alaska AG rejects Hilcorp move to acquire LNG plant
by Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News The state attorney general has rejected an effort by a Hilcorp subsidiary to acquire an LNG facility at Point MacKenzie, saying the deal could harm utility customers in Fairbanks. [...]
Phase 1 of Interior Gas Utility’s natural gas pipeline well underway
By Matt Buxton mbuxton@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Kayla Parsons, a pipeline welder with Central Environmental Inc., carefully lined up two 100-foot sections of 8-inch polyethylene pipeline Wednesday afternoon with the help of fellow crew members. Once the two [...]