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Parnell’s first problem is AGIA
Larry Wood, Alaska Standard Contributor AGIA was pronounced as DOA by Parnell himself with respect to any expected success of the Open Season. Parnell’s refusal to answer rival Bill Walker’s FOIA request for disclosure of the Open Season is proof that Parnell is playing a delaying game without any expectation of success. Against AGIA is [...]
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State: Bullet line won’t be cheap
Tim Bradnermorris News Service-Alaska, Peninsula Clarion A state technical team has completed a first-phase cost estimate for a 24-inch natural gas pipeline that could be built from the North Slope to the state’s larger cities in Interior and southern Alaska. The estimate was done in the event that a planned large-diameter pipeline by either TransCanada [...]
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Walker Continues Battle With Parnell Over Gasline Secrecy
Anchorage – Bill Walker, Republican candidate for governor, recently filed a public records request against the governor demanding that he make public the results of the AGIA “open season” that closes July 31 and release all records related to his decision to veto SB 305, thereby offering $20 billion in incentives to the North Slope [...]
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Walker fights to open gas pipeline files
By Richard Mauer, Anchorage Daily News TRADE SECRETS: Candidate for governor believes public funds demand transparency. Bill Walker, a Republican seeking to take Gov. Sean Parnell’s job, is demanding the state provide details by August about who wants to ship gas through the proposed TransCanada pipeline, months before any final transportation agreements are reached. State [...]
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Deep breaths: Bullet line idea needs some more stress tests
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Editorial Enthusiasm for the proposed bullet line to deliver North Slope natural gas to the Railbelt needs to be tempered with some hard questions. The report released Thursday estimated that a mid-size line, among those analyzed, could cost up to $8 billion. If the line’s cost were spread across about 500 million [...]
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In-state gas line and facilities could cost from $6 billion to $11 billion
Dermot Cole, Fairbanks Daily News Miner A 24-inch pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral, with a 12-inch lateral line to Fairbanks and associated facilities needed for the project, would cost from $6.4 billion to $11.8 billion, a state study released today says. That puts this project in the $9,000 to $15,000 per Alaskan range. [...]
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Search for consultant smacks of cronyism
by Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News Here’s something odd: Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration is chomping at the bit to hire a $2 million consultant quickly — very, very quickly — to take a peek at any proposals from the oil industry or lawmakers to change Alaska’s oil and gas taxes to promote construction of a [...]
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Walker submits request for TransCanada open season records
by Rhonda McBride ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sean Parnell’s office has been served a records request regarding TransCanada’s natural gas pipeline. Bill Walker, one of Parnell’s opponents in the Republican gubernatorial primary, submitted a letter Thursday at the governor’s office in Anchorage, requesting documents related to TransCanada’s open season negotiations, which began on April 30. [...]
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Walker wants pipeline, tax bill documents
The Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska – A Republican challenger to Gov. Sean Parnell has filed a records request seeking documentation of any conditions on bids as part of a proposed major natural gas pipeline. Anchorage attorney Bill Walker also wants a better explanation of why Parnell vetoed a bill that would have changed Alaska’s system [...]
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Bill Walker Files Freedom of Information Request on Governor
FOIA Request to Release Open Season Results ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Today gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding that the Governor make public the results of the open season for a natural gas pipeline. Walker said, “Now more than ever, we need openness in our government. Our governor continues [...]
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Cheniere Energy Prepares for LNG Export From U.S. Terminal
Edward McCallister, Reuters, June 4, 2010 New York – Cheniere Energy late Thursday unveiled plans to build the first liquefied natural gas export plant in the United States for 40 years, another clear sign of the market revolution caused by unconventional gas development. In an about-face for a company that in 2008 built the biggest [...]
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Parnell’s “AGIA Bailot”
Taylor Bickford, Campaign Manager Anchorage, AK – Today, Sean Parnell opened the door for upwards of $20 billion in oil tax concessions to Exxon, BP and ConocoPhillips. Parnell’s veto of SB 305 will result in the state of Alaska subsidizing a collapsed Canadian gas market, according to Bill Walker, Republican candidate for Governor. “This is [...]
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Global Gas Thirst Set to Surge, Says Senior Shell Executive
“We see global gas demand growing by at least 2% a year over some decades, so by 2030 we look at gas demand hitting 4.5 trillion cubic metres of gas per year,” Reuters quoted Malcom Brinded telling an oil conference. “That’s 50% up from today’s level.” Brinded was equally bullish on prospects for liquefied natural [...]
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Walker files a second AGIA records request