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Utility costs in Anchorage will be mostly up in 2012, for wastewater and sewer, waste handling and electricity services. Enstar Natural Gas Co. is bucking the trend, however. Natural gas prices for 2012 will be down, the company said.
Gov. Sean Parnell caused a stir when he announced support in a speech in Anchorage Oct. 27 for taking a new look at a pipeline across Alaska to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in a “southern Alaska” port (note there was no preference for Valdez or Kenai.) While the governor’s comments were significant as a long-delayed deviation from his support of the 48-inch pipeline to Alberta being worked by TransCanada and ExxonMobil, a close reading of what the governor…