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By Matt Buxton, mbuxton@newsminer.com newsminer.com JUNEAU—The state is pushing ahead with plans to expand natural gas distribution in the Fairbanks area. The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority on Friday approved a $29.6 million loan [...]

By Matt Buxton mbuxton@newsminer.com JUNEAU — The Alaska Railroad is applying to become the nation’s first railroad system to ship natural gas by rail, a move that comes as the state looks for cheap ways to [...]

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial: While the state’s planned purchase of Fairbanks Natural Gas parent company Pentex may play a large part in the solution for natural gas delivery to Fairbanks, for the moment it mostly [...]

By Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks and Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN - Anchorage  Listen here  Governor Bill Walker’s latest move to advance the state backed Interior Energy Project with the purchase of a private natural gas [...]

By Matt Buxton mbuxton@newsminer.com JUNEAU — The state’s plan to buy Fairbanks Natural Gas and its parent company answered the question of “what’s next?” after a state bid to build a processing plant on the [...]

By Dermot Cole, Alaska Dispatch JUNEAU -- In a step that could reshape the Fairbanks energy picture, a state agency has signed a letter of intent to purchase the small natural gas utility system there [...]

Matt Buxton, mbuxton@newsminer.com JUNEAU — With the aftermath of the North Slope gas processing plant in the rearview mirror, the state intends to buy Fairbanks Natural Gas. In a news release issued this evening, the [...]

BY TIM BRADNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Published: 2015.01.28 03:27 PM PHOTO/COURTESY/AGDC Alaska Gasline Development Corp. President Dan Fauske said the change in the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline project to increase the capacity to a [...]