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This Jan. 9, 2014 photo shows the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, Alaska. The Atwood Concert Hall seats over 2,000 people. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)

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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says the government is encouraged by the outcome of the U.S. State Department's final environmental impact study on the Keystone X-L pipeline. Oliver urged the Obama administration to make a “timely decision,” noting the United States has been studying the pipeline for five years. He said the latest federal study was the fifth on its environmental impact and said each report has stated that the pipeline would not adversely affect the environment. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

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Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 459 at US highway 280 as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles Wednesday January 29, 2014 in Birmingham, Ala. The winter storm that hit Alabama on Tuesday was wider and more severe than many officials expected. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)

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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, FEB. 2, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. EST - In this photo from Dec. 27, 2013, bald eagle prepares to leave a tree with a catfish in its talons at the Carolina Classics Natural Catfish farm in Ayden, N.C. (AP Photo/The Daily Reflector, Aileen Devlin)

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In this photo from Jan. 16, 2014, Kay Radzik Warren, is photographed in front of representations of the moon and Earth at the Planetarium in Reno, Nev. She is in the running to be one of the first colonists on Mars. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT.

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In this photo from Jan. 16, 2014, Kay Radzik Warren, is photographed in front of representations of the Sun at the Planetarium in Reno, Nev. She is in the running to be one of the first colonists on Mars. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT.