10/8/13 A small company says fracking will help it get oil out of rocks south of Prudhoe Bay; An end-point for a natural gas line is agreed upon; Tribes worry about how long federal shutdown will continue

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Anchorage, AK – Great Bear Petroleum says new 3D seismic data shows a significant oil find on the North Slope.
Oil companies and a company dedicated to building a natural gas pipeline to carry gas from the North Slope to market, agreed on a destination for the pipeline - Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula.
Tribes say because federal funding for a range of programs is due to treaty agreements, and because they're used for essential needs, those dollars should not be treated as discretionary funding.