...while also providing opportunity for communities to re-open facilities that have been shuttered - like Nikiski's Agrium plant. "This is something we can do if we just muster up the political will to do it," he said. "Doing so will benefit...
...Nikiski in 1988 is problematic. Much of the earlier data was collected immediately east of the Tesoro Refinery and the Agrium plant (now closed), at one time the two largest point sources of atmospheric contaminants in Alaska. For example, in...
Well-known community leader and former Agrium plant manager, George Lawrence Ford, 91, died Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, at his home in Kenai, just short of his 92nd birthday...
...the state had been more bullish on developing other energy sources instead of relying so heavily on natural gas, the Agrium plant in Nikiski might have remained viable. In developing a natural gas pipeline, Berkowitz argued that the current administration...
...drilling in Cook Inlet among others. Benson responded differently. "First of all, we would have stood up for the Agrium plant, and started protecting the jobs that were already here," she said. "We wouldn't be cutting projects and money...
...the Central Peninsula and the loss of local jobs. But let's not grieve too long. There's work to be done. The Agrium plant closed just three years ago. We grieved that loss, too. But we survived. Our population hasn't actually dropped...
...brought the pizzas to us here free of charge so the kids could get started eating and then drove all the way out to the Agrium plant in Nikiski to pick up a check from the mom while the kids were enjoying their pizza party. It?s really great to...
...Plans are to lay the new cable yet this year. Story also reported that the new co-generation power facility at the Agrium plant in Nikiski is now up and operating, producing power and steam and in the near future should receive commercial acceptance...
...department are setting up a transition office in the Kenai Mall to be staffed by Jeff Laube, a long-time operator at the Agrium plant, who will work over the next year to aid former employees in finding new jobs. Laube currently has a transition office...
...it?s new and different I?m learning a lot everyday which is fun,? he said. Even with the closing of the Agrium plant in Nikiski, Hamann remains optimistic about the future for the Peninsula, ?I?m hopeful that the Blue Sky coal...
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