Anchor Point News

At a work session Monday night, the Homer City Council mulled over the range of options for building out the natural gas line distribution system should the line be built from Anchor Point to Homer.

Graphic courtesy of Alaska Office of Oil and Gas - This map shows all current drillings in Lower Cook Inlet, including the one listed as Pioneer's, now in Buccaneer Alaska ownership.

Editor's note: This is the second in a new series offered by the Homer Tribune on school issues.

When the Department of Natural Resources announced its new mission statement, I first raised the issue in the Resources Committee.

James "Jimmer" Dick, a truck driver for Shoreside Petroleum Inc., was injured and his vehicle totaled when he crashed his new Honda Civic into a moose at mile 5.5 of the Seward Highway Saturday afternoon.

Al Ray Carroll, captain of the F/V Amber Dawn, holds an aluminum baseball bat used to beat ice off the boat on pot cod fishing trips in Cook Inlet.

Extending the gas line from Anchor Point to Homer is projected to cost $10.8 million.

The arrival of a natural gas pipeline in Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula last year has brought huge energy savings to businesses that converted from propane, reports the Homer Tribune.