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The State of Alaska has given TransCanada Corp.permission to shift its attention to a natural gas pipeline project that would be capable of producing liquefied natural gas for export overseas. In a Wednesday letter (PDF), Natural Resources Commissioner...

The Senate Finance Committee took up a proposal to tax oil profits and gas profits separately, a process known as "decoupling." It's a complex question that could cost the state millions of dollars, if oil prices get relatively higher than gas prices....

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’...

Oil executives with several firms operating in Alaska met with Gov. Sean Parnell at the Dena'ina Center in Downtown Anchorage Thursday for a noon luncheon hosted by Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief executives at the high-security, invitation-only event included...

One federal program comes into the New Year very much scaled down. The budget for the Alaska natural gas pipeline coordinator’s office was slashed by $3 million. In the appropriations bill that President Obama signed last month, the office received...

Gov. Sean Parnell proposed a new way forward on a natural gas pipeline Thursday, saying if demand for gas has shifted from the Lower 48 to Pacific Rim markets, the state must be willing to move with it. Parnell, in a speech to an oil and gas industry...

State lawmakers and many in the state’s oil and gas industry are still dissecting a speech Governor Sean Parnell gave to the Alaska Oil and Gas Association on Thursday in Anchorage. The governor told industry leaders that a gas line to the Lower 48...

By Rhonda McBride Alaska House leaders gathered today to set the record straight.  They say natural gas for Alaskans remains their top priority, despite Governor Sean Parnell’s recent announcement that he no longer wants to pursue a gas line to the...

A plan to start building an in-state gasline in the next few years is attracting a lot of attention, but not everyone is sold on the proposal. Among the skeptics are key lawmakers who control how much money the state commits to the project, and who asked...

It's still unclear just how much progress is being made behind the scenes on TransCanada's plan to build a massive gasline from the North Slope through Canada, with millions of Alaska state dollars. Lawmakers once again peppered company vice president...

The head of the Alaska Gasline Port Authority says it's time to dump AGIA.  Former gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker says an economic study of an all-Alaska gas line could bring in hundreds of billions of dollars, but the state says Walker's plans...

The proposed natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48 got a boost this week from federal regulators. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, put producers and land owners on notice that it is preparing to study the potential environmental impact...