CALGARY HERALD.  Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. said Monday that it’s buying the Canadian assets of the Williams pipeline companies at a steep discount — and will take on its massive petrochemical project in Alberta — for $1.35 billion.


KTUU/AP.  FAIRBANKS The federal government’s new plan … has received criticism from state officials and leaders who say it restricts development in the state.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the Bureau of Land Management’s plan released in July designates 1.7 million acres for possible resource extraction, while the other 4.8 acres of federal land remains closed to mining.

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State Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Elizabeth Bluemink says the department is concerned about the “restrictions and withdrawals identified in the plan.”

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