Alaska Gov. unveils new oil-field watchdog agency
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Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski  announced on Friday the creation of a new state agency to  oversee oil and gas infrastructure as a response to the  widespread pipeline corrosion that partially shut the giant  Prudhoe Bay oil field in August.
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Alaska Governor Frank  Murkowski on Wednesday suggested that BP Plc misled the state  with satisfactory maintenance reports and launched an  investigation into the oil giant's handling of its pipeline  corrosion.
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The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where  a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,  needs the type of environmental protections that are given to  better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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TOMSK. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The prosecutor's office of Russia's Tomsk region regularly looks into the activities of oil companies and users of other subsoil resources, to check on compliance with environmental laws among other things, the regional prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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In the wake of the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, Congress enacted legislation and oil companies implemented new regulations to ensure that such an environmental disaster would never happen again.
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Gov. Sarah Palin wants to deliver what many others have sought without success: a pipeline to transport natural gas from the stateâs North Slope.
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BP Plc BP.L will be able to restart   105,000 barrels per day of oil production from the eastern side   of Prudhoe Bay within "a few weeks" after Alaska regulators   approved on Friday the oil major's plan to connect the field to   the nearby Endicott pipeline.
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The US secretary of state says she will appoint an energy envoy to monitor the use of oil and gas for political purposes.
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The state&#39;s executive director of public health and the environment is on the short list of people being considered to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The directors of two Interior Department agencies said Thursday they're confident oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska can proceed without threatening polar bears that depend on the sea ice
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BP Plc BP.L this week will conduct   safety tests and seek government permission to restart part of   the eastern Prudhoe Bay oil field pipeline in Alaska that was   shut due to corrosion, the company told Congress on Tuesday.
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The Department of Transportation said it would need more data from an Alaska pipeline before it could approve a plan to restart some production from the eastern half of the oil field.
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By JEANNETTE J. LEE  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne expressed confidence in an upcoming oil lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska when he visited the North Slope last week.
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Ecuador has started to examine its oil agreements to determine if private companies have breached their contracts with the nation, South Americaâs fifth-largest oil producer, the energy minister said. âA committee will look into all contracts. It will review all we need to review and we are seeking transparency,â the oil minister, Alberto Acosta, said. The nine-member committee of energy officials and specialists is examining exploration and development contracts, which are mostly in the hands of foreign oil companies like Petrobras of Brazil and Repsol-YPF of Spain.
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Facing federal pressure over worsening air pollution, a state air quality commission on Sunday approved its first-ever statewide emissions controls on the booming oil and gas industry.