GAS PIPELINE BILL PASSES- NOW LET'S ROLL!
Today the Alaska State Senate passed our gas pipeline license with a floor vote of 14 to 5. The bill received stronger support in the Senate than I expected. The bill had previously passed the Alaska House with a vote of 24 to 16, and I had voted "Yes."Passage was a tremendous victory for Governor Sarah Palin and, hopefully, for Alaska and the United States of America.
Now the real challenges begin. With the award of the license to TransCanada, a lot of very savvy business people - TransCanada, the North Slope producers, and others can make things happen that will - finally - make the gas pipeline a reality. I recommend we now, as the Good Book says, we "all come reason together." I hope talks begin immediately to do some "partnering up" between the Producers and TransCanada. "Let's roll"!
posted by Blogs by Rep Bob Lynn | 4:52 PM
1 Comments:
"Now the real challenges begin."
No Bob - the challenge has been in front of you and the legislature over the last two years:
Bring all the necessary parties together to determine a common path to a pipeline.
Instead you spit the bit and ignored the reality that the AGIA criteria does not work for the producers/shippers. All of this haggling over AGIA approval just cost the state a half billion dollars and did nothing to progress a pipeline. You did worse than accomplish nothing. You have effectively caused a substantial delay in a pipeline.
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