Word: alaskan
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...about them; the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about them in December; Reuters News Service has carried stories about them, as has the Associated Press. Indeed, it is because of the AP stories that Qul and his two sons have received an invitation from the Institute for Alaskan Affairs, a non-profit group in Fairbanks, to visit Alaska during the last two weeks in March and discuss the possibility of settling there...
Home educated in an Alaskan village of 11 people, Helmericks came to Harvard after high school at a Fairbanks, Alaska, boarding school. He now divides his time between rowing lightweight crew and writing his Geology thesis...
...waivers to the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act, which set the ground rules for the project as early as 1976. The three U.S. natural gas producers involved in the deal-Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio and Atlantic Richfield-will be allowed to share ownership in the pipeline with the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co., the ten-company consortium that plans to build it. A1977 presidential decision barred such an agreement on antitrust grounds, but the backers argued that the change was needed to pay for the project...
...pipeline's owners to begin sending gas bills to consumers even before the pipeline is completed and fuel starts flowing. The companies insisted that this was necessary to protect investors should the pipeline be delayed or blocked by legal action in the U.S. or Canada. Construction on the Alaskan oil pipeline was halted for five years because of an avalanche of court cases by environmentalists...
...pipeline will still face some serious hurdles. Arranging the huge amounts of necessary bank financing will be difficult in view of current tight credit, and a Reagan Administration decision to speed up the decontrol of natural gas prices might also complicate the issue. Such a step would make Alaskan gas more expensive than projected and would dim the attractiveness of gas from under the midnight...