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Personal:  Jack Power's (NGP Photo) family and friends will meet together next week; we encourage his large extended group of family and friends, customers and acquaintances to come:

Monday, visitation, Evergreen Memorial, Downtown, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, service and visitation, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Celebration of Jack Powers' life, Tudor Bingo Hall, 4 p.m., POTLUCK, with beverages provided.
Anchorage Daily News: Becky Bohrer Senate should make own tax bill, president says - Senate President Gary Stevens said Tuesday that he would like the Senate to come up with its own bill on oil production taxes, adding a new twist to what was already expected to be one of the biggest legislative debates of this session.
 
Edmonton Journal: Dan Healing Pembina Pipeline-Provident Energy deal to serve growth in natural gas liquids production - The takeover of Provident Energy Ltd. by Pembina Pipeline Corp. creates a company with the "scale and scope" to serve Western Canada's rapid growth in natural gas liquids production, the CEOs said Monday.  
 
Fairbanks Daily News Miner: Jeff Richardson Fairbanks North Star Borough to pursue money for gas distribution network - The Fairbanks North Star Borough hopes to pursue state funding for a local natural gas distribution network in the months ahead, part of a push for infrastructure that officials view as a key step toward lowering energy costs in the Interior.
 
Reuters: Norway says Arctic gas pipeline could open by 2020 - A pipeline extension of 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) to bring natural gas to European markets from Norway's Arctic waters could be built in eight years at a cost of more than $4 billion, pipeline operator Gassco said on Tuesday.
 
Anchorage Daily News: Lisa Demer Petitions for vote on coastal management delivered to state
Leaders of an effort to resurrect a program intended to give the state and local communities a strong voice in coastal development rushed Tuesday to deliver petitions to the state Division of Elections so their initiative can appear on the August statewide ballot.