Oil companies shun Trump administration’s Alaska offshore auction
Oil and gas drillers failed to show up at the Trump administration’s sale of more than 400,000 hectares in Alaska’s
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Cook Inlet
U.S. judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review
By Becky Bohrer · The Associated Press Judge rules original environmental review didn’t properly analyze impacts on belugas An environmental review underpinning
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Man saved after clinging to ice chunk in Alaska’s Cook Inlet
By Mark Thiessen Man clung to a chunk of ice in Alaska’s Cook Inlet for over 30 minutes Saturday An
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U.S. cancels public comment period for Alaska oil and gas lease sale
Announcement follows Biden’s Jan. 27 executive order pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters The United States’
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Alaska’s congressional delegation: Yes for offshore oil and gas leasing, but not everywhere
Alaska’s congressional delegation has asked Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to exclude most of the state from his draft plan for
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$7 million in grants to fund indigenous village construction in Alaska
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced $7 million in grants to 14 Alaska tribal organizations, much
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Hilcorp makes oil industry’s first move in decades into federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet
For the first time in decades, an oil company has put significant money into leases in federal waters of Southcentral
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For first time, Alaska reveals recipients of cash credits for oil and gas activity
Alaska ended years of silence about its oil and gas tax credits this week by announcing the names of companies that
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Alaska controversial Chuitna coal mine ‘shelved’ after investor backs out
The company behind a large and contentious coal mine proposed for the west side of Cook Inlet is suspending all
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Undersea pipeline leak in Alaska: scope and cause of spill still unknown
The flow of oil from an undersea pipeline leaking in Cook Inlet was halted Sunday, one day after the leak
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Group to sue company over gas line leak in Alaska
Homer-based Cook Inletkeeper said in a statement to reporters that the leak from an 8-inch undersea pipeline owned and operated
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Do Arctic villages need oil? Some Alaska tribal leaders say ‘no’
If oil companies are ever going to return to drill for oil in federal waters of the Arctic, they will
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At Alaska’s urging, ConocoPhillips applies for natural gas export license
Exports of liquefied natural gas could resume soon on the Kenai Peninsula, at least if ConocoPhillips has its way. Wednesday
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Southcentral Alaska Utilities report gas supply secure to 2018, ‘black holes’ beyond
Last year, it was hard not to miss the message Southcentral Alaska utilities and political leaders were shouting: a natural
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Company squeezes more from a once-dead Alaska oil field
Another newcomer to Cook Inlet’s oil and gas fields has boosted production after rehabilitating old wells with aggressive drilling techniques.
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