Lawyers prepare clients for payouts 12/23/2007
Lawyers are meeting with their clients in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case to ready them for any decision from the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the award of punitive damages. Matt Jamin and Andrew Ot...

Energy bill passes 12/23/2007
Delegation herds legislation into law; includes Alaska-friendly provisions
President George W. Bush signed into law Dec. 19 bipartisan legislation sponsored by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, to increase fuel economy for cars and light trucks to 35 miles per gallon, or 40 percen...

Alaska delegation plans to block gas export 12/16/2007
Alaska's proposed natural gas pipeline will not be used for exporting gas outside North America, the state's congressional delegation vowed the week of Dec. 9. Alaska's senators and congressman said t...

MINING NEWS: Is U.S. Senate end of road for H.R. 2262? 11/25/2007
Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007 passes U.S. House; other body looks at throwing it out and starting with clean slate
Representatives Nick Rahall, D-W.V., and Jim Costa, D-Calif., introduced H.R. 2262, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007, in the U.S. House of Representatives as a replacement for the 1872...

Numbers will hurt proposal to lock up ANWR 11/11/2007
The latest bid by Congressional Democrats to permanently block energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands no better chance of success than earlier efforts to open the refuge's co...

Chena gets Prudhoe geothermal grant 10/21/2007
With DOE funds plans to test use of geothermal power plant to extract energy from oilfield-produced water on Alaska's North Slope
Mature oil fields such as Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk on Alaska's North Slope produce vast quantities of water along with oil. That water is pumped back into the oil reservoirs to continue to flush oil ou...

Geothermal energy in Senate spotlight 10/07/2007
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Iceland president push for more research funding, favorable development policies for clean energy resource
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called on Congress Sept. 26 to encourage geothermal energy development by funding more research to advance technology for producing the potentially low-cost energy...

LNG plant key to stable Cook Inlet market 09/16/2007
Supporters say renewing Nikiski facility's federal export license for two years would be good for economy, industry and state
With what many believe is a natural gas shortage unfolding in Cook Inlet, renewing a license for a plant in Nikiski to ship liquefied natural gas to Asia seems at first glance a frivolous, if not fool...

Office of Pipeline Coordinator bill moving 07/29/2007
The Senate Energy Committee has moved legislation sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, that will speed the full functioning of the Office of Pipeline Coordinator. The senator's office said the...

Senator wants new icebreakers in Arctic 07/15/2007
Murkowski urges international cooperation, supports involvement in international initiatives, stresses importance of Arctic to Alaska
In a July 10 speech at the National Ice Center and U.S. Arctic Research Commission's "Impact of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations" symposium, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alask...