All summer long at the Talkeetna airport, a steady buzz fills the ears of Geri Denkewalter, who with her husband, Eric, owns Talkeetna Aero Services. Both are run off their feet scheduling flights, supervising their staff of 18 and overseeing the maintenance of their fleet.
The world- famous Kenai River is about to go down in infamy. After years of charting elevated petroleum pollution from boat motors during the peak of the July king salmon fishery, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation proposes adding the lower river to the list of waters considered "impaired" under the federal Clean Water Act.
Since acquiring 20 Kenai Peninsula tracts in the May 2006 Cook Inlet areawide lease sale, Alaska-newcomer Benchmark Oil and Gas Co. has articulated a clear mantra for exploration in the region: apply state-of-the-art technologies to find new reserves. Cook Inlet dovetails into the company's strategy...
When Kenai Peninsula Borough Assemblyman Pete Sprague ran unsuccessfully for the state House in 2000 against popular former Soldotna Mayor Ken Lancaster, he joked about the stress of being a frontrunner. Six years removed from that drubbing and facing incumbent Republican Rep. Kurt Olson, he's serious when he says Juneau is within his reach.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a resource that harnessed the best available consumer advice for virtually every big-ticket purchase you had to make? This is that resource.
ccording to Petroleum News sources Agrium told its suppliers Oct. 12 that it was shutting down its Alaska nitrogen plant from Nov. 1 to March 1. Agrium said in an Aug. 23 press release that it had successfully obtained sufficient natural gas supplies to allow for the operation of its fertilizer faci...
