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Both companies are building major projects, and senior officials told an industry audience that the future is bright for new oil development in Arctic Alaska.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to halt significant amounts of oil and gas work on and near Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast despite concluding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it granted permission for oil companies to harass nearby polar bears.
In January, when the temperature in Kotzebue dropped to minus 30 and below, multiple residents noticed that Vitus fuel thickened, clogged filters and stopped flowing through the heating systems.
Achieving 76% renewable power by 2040 would be an optimal scenario, the analysis found.
Tens of millions of dollars from the 2021 federal infrastructure bill will fund a four-year clean energy project in a region of Alaska that has some of the nation’s highest fuel prices.
MethaneSAT is the first of several satellites built to publicly track oil and gas companies’ methane emissions.
The Renewable Energy Alaska Project had requested the usage data of tens of thousands of individual customers of Chugach Electric Association to propose an alternative new price structure for the utility.
Solar arrays and run-of-river facilities would be built to replace diesel-based electricity. The Biden administration announced the selections on Tuesday.
The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. is proposing a phased approach to supply the Cook Inlet region with natural gas as a prelude to LNG exports to Asia.
The site for the proposed Little Mount Susitna Wind farm northwest of Anchorage receives more wind as temperatures fall, which would reduce natural gas demand at critical times, the developers and a utility say.
Sutton Republican Rep. George Rauscher says he wants to encourage innovation without leaving fossil fuels behind. But one critic is blasting his new bill as a “jumbled mess.”
Renewable Energy Alaska Project wants state regulators to step in and force Chugach Electric Association to hand over detailed data on customers’ energy consumption.
The decision and order issued by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission came two days after the commission ordered Hilcorp to pay $452,100 for separate violations concerning unauthorized injections into oil pools within the Prudhoe Bay Unit.
Enstar warned that prices could skyrocket from imported gas as discussions turn to incentivizing more production.
Along with paying the penalty, Hilcorp must carry out the corrective actions identified in its internal investigation, the order said.
Legislators are set to hear from Hilcorp and smaller producers Wednesday about how to get more natural gas from Cook Inlet.
Environmentalists and the grassroots group Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic are seeking to have last March’s approval overturned.
Natural gas utility Enstar said the amount of gas it provided to customers overnight Wednesday beat a record set in the winter of 2017.
The order is one of 12 the governor introduced at the start of the Alaska legislative session.
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is asking legislators to spend another $4.5 million on marketing and development of the huge project. But lawmakers sound increasingly skeptical.
Power interruptions could be a problem in the coming years, said Enstar president John Sims, echoing the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
The report compared four scenarios for power generation, from a continuation of the current heavy reliance on natural gas to varying blends of solar, wind, hydro, tidal and nuclear energy.
A representative for the utilities’ effort says that a free-flowing Eklutna River could damage critical infrastructure, including the buried water pipe that delivers most of Anchorage’s drinking water.