Thousands of dollars was spent on travel, outfitting the hired help with computers and software, and a 12.5 percent administrative fee charged by the Alaska Forest Association.
The company says the drilling rig will be able drill up to 37,000 feet, or more than seven miles, out from the pad it sits on when it goes to work in a few months.
Efforts to make sure Alaska Natives receive more Medicaid-reimbursed care at tribal health facilities are on pace to save the state more than $100 million of general funds in fiscal year 2020, Division of Health Care Services Director Renee Gayhart told lawmakers.
A lawsuit over who has rights to thousands of acres of promising Interior Alaska gold claims has ensnared the new and former owners of the Pogo gold mine.
Keith Meyer said the state’s current path virtually assures a long-sought North Slope gas line project won’t be built for at least another decade.
The plan would allow the remote Western Alaska port to accommodate larger tankers and cruise ships among other vessels.
The latest hike is significantly greater than normal in order to help fund construction of a roughly $200 million petroleum and cement terminal.
A pipeline company wants state regulators to require a gas producer to put the fuel into a pipe and move it to market instead of burning it off.
Caracol Petroleum missed its first loan payment to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority under a recently restructured financing plan, according to authority spokesman Karsten Rodvik.
John Hendrix was general manager of Apache Corp.’s operations in Cook Inlet prior to working in the Walker administration.
After major pushback last year, the governor is asking Alaskans and their lawmakers to decide what they want their state government to be.
The settlement means the true constitutionality of the Alaska-hire law remains unsettled.
