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    Walker touts tax to push AK LNG
    Walker touts tax to push AK LNG
    By James Brooks • September 30, 2015 12:29 pm

    “I’m not trying to buy love. I’m trying to sell gas.” So declared Gov. Bill Walker in a press conference…

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    Hilcorp acquires more inlet oil assets
    Hilcorp acquires more inlet oil assets
    By Tim Bradner • July 9, 2015 11:05 am

    Hilcorp Alaska will purchase XTO Energy assets in the Middle Ground Shoal of Cook Inlet and is also studying a…

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    Analysis: Governor’s firing of 3 AGDC board members may backfire
    Analysis: Governor’s firing of 3 AGDC board members...
    By Tim Bradner • January 21, 2015 4:48 pm

    The state’s political and resource communities are still buzzing about Gov. Bill Walker’s sudden firing Jan. 6 of three Alaska…

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    BP Alaska plans layoffs in 2015
    BP Alaska plans layoffs in 2015
    By BECKY BOHRER • September 17, 2014 1:19 pm

    JUNEAU — BP Alaska, a major player in the state’s oil industry, on Monday announced plans to lay off 275…

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    Alaska LNG Project buys land, secures access around Nikiski
    Alaska LNG Project buys land, secures access around...
    By Tim Bradner • August 6, 2014 12:45 pm

    The Alaska LNG Project LLC has purchased 120.4 acres from private landowners for a large liquefied natural gas plant at…

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    Official links gas project, referendum
    Official links gas project, referendum
    By BECKY BOHRER • July 16, 2014 1:41 pm

    JUNEAU — The decision Alaska voters make on an oil-tax referendum next month could have implications for a proposed liquefied…

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    Senate panel hears Exxon Valdez funding measure on spill anniversary
    Senate panel hears Exxon Valdez funding measure on...
    By BECKY BOHRER • March 26, 2014 2:31 pm

    JUNEAU — On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Senate Judiciary Committee took up a resolution…

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    Remembering Prince William Sound
    Remembering Prince William Sound
    By Sally Wills • March 20, 2014 2:46 pm

    I wrote this song, Water and Oil Don’t Mix, (watch video below) for the approaching 25th year anniversary of the…

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    Protesters hold signs along the Homer Spit during meetings involving Exxon in the months after the spill.   -File photo
    Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
    March 19, 2014 5:41 pm

    On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound —  “fetched up,” in the words…

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    Exxon Valdez oil spill: 25 years later
    Exxon Valdez oil spill: 25 years later
    By Findlay Abbott • March 19, 2014 5:24 pm

    Truth is one of the first casualties of war, and in Alaska, truth was the first casualty of the Exxon…

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    After the spill: Sound ‘recovering’
    After the spill: Sound ‘recovering’
    March 19, 2014 5:18 pm

    BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Twenty-five years after the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March…

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    Oil from the Exxon oil spill remains on Prince William Sound beaches. As proof, Harrison Metz, Coda Wood, Terry Gilliland and Austin Cline have a jar of the oil collected from Eleanor Island during August 2013.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Fireweed students give fresh eyes to a 25-year-old...
    By McKibben Jackinsky • January 29, 2014 5:44 pm

    They might not have been born when it happened, but ask the fifth- and sixth-grade students at Fireweed Academy about…

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    Alaskans file to repeal Senate Bill 21
    Alaskans file to repeal Senate Bill 21
    By Dan Joling • April 24, 2013 1:01 pm

    BANCHORAGE — A new non-partisan group seeking repeal of an oil tax cut says the measure approved by state legislators…

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    • Borough mayoral candidates participate in Tuesday forum
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