Office of the Federal Coordinator by Jennifer Thompson.  The federal coordinator’s office for an Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline is sponsoring an Oct. 18 public forum in Anchorage (and streamed live on the web) to discuss the state’s options for assisting in gas line development. The panelists will review potential fiscal options that could help in developing an out-of-state and an in-state line, and how the state could benefit from looking at the two projects as a package.  Panelists:  William Garner, senior counsel at Dewey & LeBoeuf in Houston; Gregg [...]

  (Fairbanks, AK) - DNR’s Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) announces the release of the first of several high-resolution LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) datasets for the proposed Alaska Pipeline Project (APP) and Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) corridors. The airborne LiDAR survey was conducted in fall 2011 and spring-summer 2012 by contractor Watershed Sciences, Inc., of Corvallis, Oregon, over proposed transportation and infrastructure corridors from Prudhoe Bay to the Canada border, Delta Junction to Valdez, and Livengood to the Point MacKenzie area. Funding from the state Gas [...]