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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Sept. 11, 2015

  12-09-2015 03:42
  
  
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  Walker tenaciously courts LNG buyers in Japan
  Rachel Waldholz, APRN – Anchorage
  Governor Bill Walker will travel to Japan on Saturday for a week-long trip to promote Alaska’s natural gas to potential buyers in Asia. The governor will
  
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• Walker tenaciously courts LNG buyers in Japan

  12-09-2015 03:35
  
  
  The proposed pipeline route for the Alaska LNG Project, a consortium of oil companies (Image courtesy of the Alaska LNG Project).
  Governor Bill Walker will travel to Japan on Saturday (Sept. 12) for a week-long trip to promote Alaska’s natural gas to potential buyers in Asia. The governor will be speaking at a summit in Tokyo and meeting with companies and industry representatives from around the region.
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  But back at home, it’s clear there are still major disagreem
  
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• Alaska’s U.S. senators assail Iran deal

  12-09-2015 03:34
  
  
  Photo: USGS
  Republicans in the U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday failed to get enough votes to advance a resolution rejecting the nuclear accord with Iran. The debate continues next week. Both Alaska senators spoke out against the deal.
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  Sen. Dan Sullivan says the promised inspections aren’t serious and that the Obama administration gave up to too much in the negotiations.
  “At a certain point concessions become humiliations!” he said Thursday on the Se
  
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• New UA head sees opportunity despite bleak fiscal landscape

  12-09-2015 03:33
  
  
  Jim Johnsen at a meet and greet in Juneau, July 7, 2015. Johnsen is a candidate for University of Alaska president. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  It’s been less than two weeks since Jim Johnsen took the helm as president of the University of Alaska. And the transition in leadership is coming at a time when the university system is attempting to streamline and rethink the way it operates.
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  Johnsen sees an opportunity amid the dark cloud of declining state funding and budget cut
  
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• Traveling Music 9-20-15

  12-09-2015 03:31
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  9-20-15
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Hallowell
  Kristin Andreassen, Ruth Ungar, Aoife O’Donovan / Kristin Andreassen
  Sometimes Why
  www.sometimeswhy.us
  3:42
   
  Saucy Sailor
  The Wailin’ Jennys / Traditional
  40 Days
  www.thewailinjennys.com
  3:10
   
  This Train
  The Wayfaring Strangers / Traditional
  This Train
  Rounder
  3:34
   
  So Happy I’ll Be
  Rhonda Vincent and the Rage / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs
  Ra
  
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• In unnerving trend, 35,000 walrus haul out at Point Lay

  12-09-2015 03:31
  
  
  Pacific walrus. (Photo: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association)
  In what’s becoming an increasingly common sight, tens of thousands of walrus have hauled out on the coast of the Chukchi Sea near the Native Village of Point Lay.
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  An estimated 35,000 Pacific walrus are currently crowding a barrier island just north of Point Lay, a phenomenon that has become more and more common.
  The U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Nat
  
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• New road from Tanana to Yukon River nears completion

  12-09-2015 03:30
  
  
  Construction of a new road to the Yukon River near Tanana is almost complete.
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  DOT Northern Region Spokesperson Meadow Bailey estimates the project is about 80 percent finished, with about 6 miles left to go before the road reaches the south bank of the Yukon across from Tanana.
  The project is building 20 miles of new roadway and improving 14 miles of existing road, extending north and west out of Manley Hot Springs.
  Bailey says the work schedule was thrown off by this summer&rsquo
  
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