blog: Gov. Sarah Palin Presides Over Signing of Alaska Gas Pipeline Agreement

[We don't usually link to blogs and/or spin/snark, which surround this nugget of news. However the spin that surrounded this is refreshinly unslanted and worth visiting the site for, and the news is excellently sourced. -- MN]

The December 5th event culminated a two-year process during which the AGIA concept was developed and became law. It also marked a giant step forward in achieving the long-deferred Alaska dream of a natural gas pipeline to bring Alaska ’s vast resource to market.
“TransCanada’s record of delivering projects on time and on budget is unsurpassed in the industry,” Governor Palin said. [....]
TransCanada proposes a 4.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d), 48-inch diameter, mostly buried pipeline running 1,715 miles from a natural gas treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope to the Alberta Hub in Canada . The Alaska section will be approximately 750 miles in length with six compressor stations at startup and five natural gas delivery points in Alaska . [....]
The Alaskan legislature had been trying for 30 years to authorize something like this and, up until now, had blown it. Palin got it through. 

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