Pete Kelley, Fairbanks, Finance Committee, Senator, Video Photo by Dave HarbourKTUU News.  Disagreements over the state's operating budget continue to keep lawmakers in Juneau past the 90-day session.  Members of the Senate Finance Committee spoke out Tuesday for the first time since the session was extended Sunday night.                                                                                 "The cavalry of funding not coming over the hill to rescue us — we don't have the money," said Senate Finance Co-Chairman Pete Kelly (Video File Photo).  More with video….

World Pipelines.  Exova, the global testing, calibration and advisory services provider, has been contracted by the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) to provide a material and weld qualification programme for AGDC’s Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) project.

AGDC is currently engaged in Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the US$10 billion North Slope natural gas project and in its first contract with the company, Exova’s Houston laboratory is qualifying selected pipe mills and welding contractors specified by AGDC to work on the 727 mile, 36 in. main pipeline.  More….