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    Articles by Ben Boettger
    HEA subsidiary also to have deregulation election
    HEA subsidiary also to have deregulation election
    By Ben Boettger • November 2, 2016 3:15 pm

    As Homer Electric Association proceeds with its election to withdraw from the oversight of the state utilities regulator, the Regulatory…

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    HEA answers questions about its proposal to withdraw from RCA
    HEA answers questions about its proposal to withdraw...
    By Ben Boettger • October 19, 2016 12:55 pm

    Homer Electric Association officials, including board members, have been holding member outreach meetings on the Kenai Peninsula seeking support for…

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    School district seeks ideas on budget
    School district seeks ideas on budget
    By Ben Boettger • October 12, 2016 5:18 pm

    At a series of public meetings Thursday, Oct. 13, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will begin confronting a budget…

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    Homer-area schools to plan to reduce 10 bus routes to five next school year
    Homer-area schools to plan to reduce 10 bus...
    By Ben Boettger • October 5, 2016 5:11 pm

    Among the budget-driven changes coming to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is a new busing system that will change…

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    Agrium seeks DEC permit to discharge from Nikiski plant
    Agrium seeks DEC permit to discharge from Nikiski...
    By Ben Boettger • September 21, 2016 2:25 pm

    The Alberta-based fertilizer producer Agrium has applied for an Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation permit for waste discharge from its…

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    Ninilchik harbor dredging planned
    Ninilchik harbor dredging planned
    By Ben Boettger • September 21, 2016 1:18 pm

    On Friday, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers released a report about its annual dredging of approximately 9,000 cubic yards…

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    Bear injures woman on Kenai refuge trail
    Bear injures woman on Kenai refuge trail
    By Ben Boettger • July 7, 2016 12:12 pm

    Bear injures woman on Kenai refuge trail A woman hiking alone Sunday on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s Lower Kenai…

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    Approved by borough, peninsula marijuana growers now in final permitting
    Approved by borough, peninsula marijuana growers now in...
    By Ben Boettger • June 29, 2016 3:30 pm

    After the state issued its first marijuana growing permits on June 9 and 10, nine local cultivators were approved by…

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    Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion U.S Senator Lisa Murkowksi (R-Alaska, left, in lavender jacket) listens to an explanation from BlueCrest Chief Operations Officer John Martineck (in hardhat) on a bus tour of the company's Hansen Production oil wellpad on Saturday, April 25 near Anchor Point. The Hansen Facility, where oil drilling is expected to begin in August, is named after nearby homesteaders Viola (center, teal jacket) and John Hansen (black cap) who are leasing the land to BlueCrest.
    BlueCrest unveils Anchor Point pad
    By Ben Boettger • June 29, 2016 2:43 pm

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

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    BlueCrest addresses fracking plans
    BlueCrest addresses fracking plans
    By Ben Boettger • June 22, 2016 12:29 pm

    Within a few weeks drivers passing between Anchor Point and Ninilchik may see a new feature on the coastline —…

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    HEA briefs members on hot topics
    HEA briefs members on hot topics
    By Ben Boettger • May 12, 2016 11:40 am

    Issues discussed in Homer Electric Association’s annual members meeting, held May 4 at Kenai Central High School, include what the…

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    Warm winters fuel outbreak of aphids
    Warm winters fuel outbreak of aphids
    By Ben Boettger • April 21, 2016 9:59 am

    Last spring, homeowners near Halibut Cove and Homer began to see needles on their spruces turning yellow and brown. Naturalists…

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    Alaska LNG Project still moves forward
    Alaska LNG Project still moves forward
    By Ben Boettger • February 25, 2016 11:30 am

    Local representatives of the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project said that although their leaders have spoken of possible delays,…

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