{"id":28276,"date":"2017-01-06T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/native-corporation-anchorage-settle-gas-dispute-for-5-75m\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:02:21","slug":"native-corporation-anchorage-settle-gas-dispute-for-5-75m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/native-corporation-anchorage-settle-gas-dispute-for-5-75m\/","title":{"rendered":"Native corporation, Anchorage settle gas dispute for $5.75M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Anchorage has reached an agreement with an Alaska Native corporation to settle a dispute over revenue generated by the sale of natural gas from the city\u2019s landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the agreement announced Wednesday, the municipality will pay Eklutna $5.75 million and the corporation will relinquish all future claims to revenue from the gas. The deal must still be approved by the Anchorage Assembly, the Chugiak-Eagle River Star reported.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage sells methane generated at the landfill to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Eklutna, the municipality\u2019s largest private landholder, has argued that it\u2019s entitled to half of any income generated from the landfill because of the 35-year-old North Anchorage Land Agreement. Anchorage and Eklutna signed the agreement in 1982 after realizing they had competing claims for the 274-acre landfill.<\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed in 2013, Eklutna claimed the municipality could owe it as much as $24 million over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ethan Berkowitz said during a news conference Wednesday that the dispute had become a \u201cchoking point\u201d and that the new settlement allows the two sides to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ought to be neighbors and partners,\u201d Berkowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Eklutna CEO Curtis McQueen said both sides are now \u201con the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, Eklutna also agrees to begin development of two large parcels of land near Eagle River. The land will be dedicated for housing, McQueen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Anchorage has reached an agreement with an Alaska Native corporation to settle a dispute over revenue generated by the sale of natural gas from the city\u2019s landfill. Under the terms of the agreement announced Wednesday, the municipality will pay Eklutna $5.75 million and the corporation will relinquish all future claims to revenue from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}