Village corporations seek pipeline help 10/25/2009
Coalition controls 100 miles of gas line route along Alaska Highway, wants partner to help pursue jobs, training for megaproject
A coalition of Alaska Native village corporations is seeking help in pursuing employment and other opportunities should a natural gas pipeline be constructed through their region. The four corporation...

DGGS gearing up for summer field work 05/17/2009
Investigations continue on North Slope, along the Alaska Highway corridor, around the Cook Inlet basin and near Slate Creek
Geoscientists from Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Services are getting ready to pull out their boots, hammers and notebooks for another busy summer field season, progressing work prog...

Mining News: Mineral Roundup in Yukon Territory 03/29/2009
Yukon Territory has one producing mine, the Minto copper-gold-silver operation near the Yukon River north of Whitehorse. During 2008, more than 150 active hardrock exploration projects in the territor...

FERC accepts certificate surrender 02/15/2009
Remaining partners in 1977 conditional certificate holder Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co. owned by TransCanada
The meatball is no more. On Feb. 6 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted surrender of the conditional certificate Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co. received in 1977 for an A...

Mining News: Junior targets tungsten-moly deposits 12/28/2008
Mineral-rich Northern Dancer claims offer opportunity to develop one of the world's largest known sources of strategic metal
NORTHERN DANCER PROJECT, Yukon Territory – Folded into the rocks of this remote valley astride the border between Yukon Territory and British Columbia is at least 20 percent of the world's known tungs...

AK-WA Connection 2008: Carriers join quest for seafood quality 11/30/2008
Alaska fishermen who seek fast but less expensive methods for shipping their fresh catch to Lower 48 markets get new options
Transportation companies in the Alaska-Washington trade are working to come up with faster and more efficient ways for commercial fishermen to move fresh, wild Alaska seafood to Lower 48 markets. And...

AK-WA Connection 2008: Alaska trade offers enduring promise 11/30/2008
Washington companies and institutions excel in providing crucial support, services for 49th state's business community, economy
As Alaska gears up for the challenges of the next decade, institutions and businesses in Washington State stand ready to support the Last Frontier's business community in moving forward. Whether in tr...

Mining News: Andrew just gets better and better 11/30/2008
Cheered by 2008 discovery of the Darcy zone, Aussie junior continues to pursue development of Selwyn Basin lead-zinc project
ANDREW PROJECT, Yukon Territory – If Australia-based Overland Resources gets its way, this remote valley in eastern Yukon may become home to the next lead-zinc mine in the Far North. And if developmen...

Pearce warns of infrastructure delays 11/30/2008
Federal coordinator says competition not biggest threat to gas line; says costly delays could kill it if needed work not done first
Of the things that could get in the way of an Alaska gas pipeline happening this time around some can be managed or will be taken care of by the markets, Drue Pearce told the Resource Development Coun...

Denali submits ROW for federal lands 11/16/2008
Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline LLC submitted a right-of-way application Oct. 17 to the Bureau of Land Management to cross federal land in Alaska. Denali said Nov. 13 that approximately one-third of...

Mining News: Exploration advances in Selwyn Basin 09/28/2008
Junior identifies string of zinc-lead deposits in mineralization that straddles border of two northwestern Canada provinces
HOWARD'S PASS, Yukon Territory – In this wide, alpine valley that snakes across the border into the Northwest Territories at its southeastern tip, one of the world's largest zinc-lead-silver propertie...

Legislature hears First Nations issues 07/20/2008
Duty to consult a potential challenge for a pipeline builder in Canada, as is Canadian regulatory system, a Mackenzie holdup
AGIA hearings to date have focused largely on Alaska issues, since the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act is the State of Alaska's attempt to encourage a North-Slope-to-market gas pipeline. A July 13 AGIA...

LNG or natural gas project? 07/06/2008
Econ One: Pipeline along Alaska Highway probably trumps LNG plan
A liquefied natural gas project can earn more on less, more or less. But more and more, a big pipeline through Canada can earn more on more, according to a legislative consultant testifying during an...

Denali opens Tok office for summer work 06/29/2008
Producer-backed company throws a party on the Alaska Highway to celebrate 'boots on the ground' in its effort to build a pipeline
In a tight race, every inch counts. As TransCanada inched through Alaska Gasline Inducement Act hearings in Anchorage on June 19, a producer-created company with a competing pipeline proposal also inc...

Shakwak: U.S. funding for Yukon roadwork 06/29/2008
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Deputy Commissioner Frank Richards told legislators June 13 in Fairbanks that Shakwak funds are expected to be cut in the next Congressional h...

Road work needed in advance of gas line 06/29/2008
State pegs $2 billion in surface, bridge, facilities needs along pipeline route, routes for pipe, supplies for construction
Having two competing gas pipeline projects going to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission isn't a concern for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. What concerns the depar...

FERC ready; Denali applies to pre-file 06/22/2008
Office of Energy Projects officials ready to process application; will work with all comers, let market decide what project built
Mark Robinson and Jeff Wright, director and deputy director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, told Alaska legislators June 16 they are ready to process an applic...

NEB filing designed to keep tolls low 06/22/2008
TransCanada's application to the National Energy Board designed to make Alberta System more commercially attractive to North Slope, Mackenzie and B.C. natural gas shippers
TransCanada said June 17 that its subsidiary TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. filed an application with Canada's National Energy Board, or NEB, to establish federal regulation for TransCanada's Alberta Syst...

Kvisle defends TransCanada 06/08/2008
CEO says company has financial strength, experience needed for gas line
TransCanada has the experience and the financial strength to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to market connections in Alberta, and the ability to create a commercial proposal fo...

Looking to share TAPS corridor 05/04/2008
ANGDA has URS working issues of proximity to trans-Alaska oil pipeline, should spur line be built from Delta Junction to Glennallen
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, known as ANGDA, has been looking at ways to get natural gas to Southcentral Alaska using a spur line off a main gas pipeline to be built to take North Slo...

New gas partnership 04/13/2008
ConocoPhillips, BP form company to build Alaska natural gas pipeline
The prospect for an Alaska gas pipeline ratcheted up several notches April 8 with an announcement by ConocoPhillips and BP that the two were beginning work on a North Slope gas pipeline, a project the...

Yukon wants gas line action 03/16/2008
Fentie urges Ottawa to restart agency to update Foothills certificates for Alaska line
The Yukon, with a wary eye on the threat posed by imported LNG, wants the Canadian government to reactivate a 30-year-old agency created to oversee the planning and construction of an Alaska Highway g...

In-state gas line from North Slope on table 02/24/2008
North Slope to Valdez infrastructure would cost under $10B, plus $500M for Glenn spur from Glennallen to Beluga, says Heyworth
A letter sent from Alaska House Speaker John Harris to Gov. Sarah Palin earlier in February indicates that legislators are turning their attention to the merits of an in-state gas pipeline, while i...

Mapping Alaska gas line 01/20/2008
Geologists look for geologic hazards, surface materials along Alaska Highway route
As a follow-up to a 2006 airborne geophysical survey of the Alaska Highway corridor, a team of 10 to 12 geologists from Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys spent approximately a mo...

Good news for Alaska 01/20/2008
Study expects 42% unused space in gas lines out of Alberta, B.C. by 2018
A natural gas pipeline from Alaska to Lower 48 markets holds the key to heading off a looming plight for the five export pipelines out of Western Canada, which could face 42 percent unused capacity by...