...labor relations board last month for an election to unionize Austin Industrial crafts workers building BP's experimental gas-to-liquids plant in Nikiski. Passe said Austin Industrial, which arrived last winter and hired local workers, is different...

...labor relations board last month for an election to unionize Austin Industrial crafts workers building BP's experimental gas-to-liquids plant in Nikiski. Passe said Austin Industrial, which arrived last winter and hired local workers, is different...

Alaska has long exported raw materials, but an experimental gas-to-liquids plant in Nikiski may soon export technology, too. "There will be a lot of brain-power assembled in Alaska," said Ken Konrad...