1/30/14

Today during the Industry Outlook Forum many people presented about the opportunities in the Kenai Peninsula mainly through the oil and gas industries.

1/30/14

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it will suspend and possibly withdraw its operations completely from Alaska’s Arctic shores.

1/30/14

On Sunday, Alaska State Troopers responded to the Central Peninsula Hospital for a report of a female adult who had been assaulted.

01/30/14

Scientists have been torn as to whether or not fish in the Pacific Ocean have been adversely affected by radiation.

At roughly 10:00 pm a driver witnessed a single roll over vehicle accident at mile 22 of the Kenai Spur highway in Nikiski near Agrium and reported to State Troopers. Nikiski Emergency Services responded with troopers to find the sole occupant of the vehicle had suffered life threatening injuries, LifeMed was called and the highway was shutdown to allow for landing of a helicopter and retrieval of the patient. The identity of the victim is unknown at this time and investigation is ongoing, we will continue to update this story as more details are known.

01/29/14

Today Senate Candidate Daniel Sullivan attended the Kenai Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

01/29/14

The Nikiski Fire Department responded this morning to an industrial work site in Nikiski.

Governor Sean Parnell’s gas line legislation was presented to legislative committees this week.   Senate Finance was briefed Monday morning and during that meeting Co-Chair Kevin Meyer stated that it is difficult be excited for something that has been introduced so many times before, just by different names.   Meyers: “But this one is different, instead of working against the producers, we’re working as a partnership and I’m encouraged by that. And also I’m encouraged in the sense that we’ll be owners in the pipeline which gets us at the table so that we at least know what’s going on. I’m getting old, I’ve been hearing this too many times and I’m done doing cartwheels. But I do want to see a gas pipeline in my lifetime.”   Deputy Revenue Commissioner Mike Pawlowski offered this assurance…    Pawslowski: “It’s not just about what will happen, but it’s, I think, things that we are seeing happening today. One, last summer we saw a significant summer field season conducted, from Livengood to the North Slope. We’ve also seen quietly the company start to pursue land acquisition on the Kenai for the LNG terminal. There are things happening today that give us a bit more…

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01/28/14

Today Project Homeless Connect hosted a room full of agencies geared towards helping the homeless and nearly homeless.

01/28/14

Homer Electric Association is continuing work to upgrade their transmission lines from Nikiski to Soldotna.