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Senate panel advances bills on lands, Denali name

...National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that it believes require cleanup by the agency. BLM manages the reserve, where more than 130 wells were drilled under the federal government's direction as part of an exploratory oil and gas program from the 1940s to...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-19/senate-panel-advances-bills-lands-denal
State
Paratroopers fill the skies over JBER

...Operation Spartan Reach" included more than 1,400 paratroopers, who were dropped out of Air Force C-17 Globemasters and a C-130 Hercules along with 105mm howitzer cannons. The exercise took place June 3-5 on both JBER and Fort Greely near Fairbanks...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-17/paratroopers-fill-skies-over-jber
State
Police and State Trooper calls for May 28, 2013

...The two men were contacted with a total of 10 crab, 8 of which were illegal. Moskito was fined $250 and Moises was fined $130. The 8 illegal crab were returned to the ocean.TheftFuel as reported stolen from a business Monday at 11:01 a.m. on the...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-27/police-and-state-trooper-calls-may-28-2
Local | Police & Fire
River ice jam that led to Alaska flooding churns

...earlier.Kevin Ray, a state worker who moved to Galena four months ago, was among the human evacuees who flew in on a Guard C-130 transport plane to Fairbanks, 270 miles east of Galena. Ray said the flight was noisy, with the constant barking of frightened...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-30/river-ice-jam-led-alaska-flooding-churn
State
Flooded town awaits damage assessment

...additional harm, such as mold in floors and walls, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Tuesday.About a third of about 130 Galena residents who did not evacuate attended a meeting Sunday. Also there was Sherry Argend, a representative of the state's...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-05/flooded-town-awaits-damage-assessment
State
Murkowski: Plan to have Alaska aid cleanup is dead

...not then be on the shoulders of the state of Alaska," the Republican senator told Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.More than 130 wells were drilled under the federal government's direction as part of an exploratory oil and gas program from the 1940s to...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-08/murkowski-plan-have-alaska-aid-cleanup-
State
Facts about the oil tax giveaway

...elimination of Alaska's windfall profits share. That's a $1 - $2 billion rollback in Alaska's oil revenue (assuming $110 - $130/barrel prices), which allowed a modestly increasing tax rate as companies earned windfall profits at very high oil prices...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-09/facts-about-oil-tax-giveaway
Opinion
BLM releases plan to address abandoned Alaska wells

...about $86 million to plug 18 legacy wells since 2002.BLM manages the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, where more than 130 wells were drilled under the federal government's direction as part of an exploratory oil and gas program from the 1940s to...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-09/blm-releases-plan-address-abandoned-ala
State
Greens Creek Mine production soars in Q1

...acquiring a gold mine in Quebec, Canada via Aurizon. The mine, Casa Berardi, is expected to yield an estimated 125,000 to 130,000 ounces of gold according to Aurizon, the company that owns the mine. Next year they expect 150,000 ounces. "For our...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-12/greens-creek-mine-production-soars-q1
Local
River forecasters say Alaska flood threat moderate

...moderate" for most of the state.The outlook notes normal to above-normal snowpack in much of the state, meaning 90 to 130 percent of the usual amount along major rivers. Likewise, ice thickness remains between 100 and 125 percent of normal.Temperatures...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-07/river-forecasters-say-alaska-flood-thre
State

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