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Enstar Parent Company Sold to Canada's AltaGas
Enstar parent company SEMCO Energy has been sold to Canada’s AltaGas, which has agreed to pay more than $1.1 billion to acquire natural gas businesses in Alaska and Michigan.
AltaGas says the firms are a good fit with its own assets and part of a...Tags: Continental Energy Corporation, Natural Resources, Companies and Corporations, Energy Resources, Natural Resources
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Kodiak Missile Defense Funding Issues
Channel 2 NewsA Defense Department decision to extend Boeing Corp.'s contract for the country's ground-based missile defense system means Alaska's aerospace corporation has lost a possible income source. The Alaska Aerospace Corp. partnered with Lockheed Martin to...Tags: Alaska Legislature, Aerospace Manufacturing, Defense, Companies and Corporations, Boeing Co.
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Lawmakers Want Constitutional Amendment to Limit Campaign Contributions
Channel 2 NewsSome Alaska lawmakers want to end the massive influence of groups such as super political action committees in elections across the country, and are urging the U.S. Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court decided...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Companies and Corporations, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice System
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Troopers Say Man Threatens Terrorism in Extortion Case
Channel 2 NewsAlaska State Troopers in Fairbanks say they were contacted by a North Pole man who threatened acts of terrorism in an attempt to extort $85,000 from the State of Alaska. In the deal, Stanislaus Grzeskowiak, 36, would abandon plans to commit several...Tags: Terrorism, Companies and Corporations, Blackmail and Extortion, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Organized Crime
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Rep. Les Gara Calls for Hearing on Alternative Oil Tax Bill
Channel 2 NewsRep. Les Gara (D-Anchorage) has called for a legislative hearing on his version of an oil company tax-reform bill in the face of dwindling oil production on the North Slope. Gara has been one of the chief critics of Gov. Sean Parnell's competing tax-...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Government
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Russian Tanker Renda Begins Journey Home
Channel 2 NewsThe Russian tanker Renda began its journey home Saturday morning. Overnight Vitas Marine’s Stacey Smith says winds out of the north opened the ice up for the ship to follow after its crew successfully delivered 1.3 million gallons of emergency...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Russian Tanker Prepares for Fuel Delivery to Nome
Channel 2 NewsThe Russian tanker that pulled up to Nome on Friday has not yet begun transferring fuel from its ship to city storage tanks. The Renda was moved into position for the fuel transfer, about 500 yards from shore on Saturday -- which is close enough, because...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Lisa Murkowski, Economy, Business and Finance, Petroleum Industry
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Russian Tanker Renda Gets DEC Approval
Channel 2 NewsThe Russian tanker Renda has received approval for its spill prevention plan during a winter fuel delivery to Nome from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, according to the company that chartered it.Officials with Vitus Marine LLC say the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Coast Guard
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Russian Vessel Renda Crosses Sea Ice in its Journey Towards Nome
The Russian Icebreaker, Renda, has crossed the stormy, wind-tossed waters of the Aleutians and has begun to cross the sea ice on its historic voyage to Nome. Vitus Marine LLC, the company that contracted the Renda to deliver more than a million...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Exxon Mobil Corp, BP and ConocoPhillips Agree Asia May Be the Best Market for Alaska's Natural Gas
A new chapter may have begun in Alaska’s decade-long saga to bring North Slope gas to market. Governor Sean Parnell met on Thursday with the heads of the state’s three major oil and gas producers: Exxon Mobil’s Rex Tillerson, BP’...Tags: Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Natural Resources
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Federal Judge Ends BP's Probation for Alaska Spill
Channel 2 NewsA U.S. District Court judge has dismissed the federal government's argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska's North Slope. Judge Ralph Beistline also lifted BP Exploration Alaska, Inc.'s...Tags: Oil Spills, Prosecution, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Economy, Business and Finance, Punishment
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Health, Politics, Lungs and Airways, Laws, Economy, Business and Finance
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