Calgary Herald, by Susan Lazaruk.  Pipeline plans fuel house-price boom in parts of B.C. - Conversely, assessed values drop on Vancouver Island Alaska Dispatch by Dermot Cole.  The {Fairbanks, Alaska} utility that supplies 335-degree steam heat to 73 downtown customers through underground pipes has been burned by the public response to its request for a 95 percent increase in its rate capand is trying to cool the situation.  “It was not and is not Aurora’s intention to increase actual rates by that amount all at once,” Aurora Energy President Buki Wright wrote to the Regulatory Commission [...]