State Senate Leader Further Erodes Investment Climate: Producers Would Pay $2 Billion More/Year When/If Gas Pipeline Flows! -dh Senator Murkowski's Thursday Speech Video   Yesterday morning, while speaking to a 7:30 a.m. crowd at the Resource Development in Anchorage, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo, w/RDC President Wendy Lindskoog) raised her vibrating Blackberry and announced that the Environmental Protection Agency had, in wake of President Barack Obama's OCS proclamation this week, approved Shell's Chukchi Sea Clean Air Act permit. Shell Alaska's Vice President, Pete Slaiby smiled as eyes turned on him [...]