TAPS Shuts Down This Weekend – TAPS Pays Municipalities More – Time To Review Oil Taxes
ADN by Casey Grove. The 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline is shut down due to a leak at Pump Station 1 on the North Slope. ADN by Rosemary Shinohara. Anchorage's cash-strapped local government, the state and a handful of other Alaska communities got multimillion-dollar windfalls in December -- additional 2006 property tax payments from owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as the result of a state Superior Court decision upping the assessed value of the pipeline. ADN Op-Ed by Jeff Pantages. Before one barrel of oil went down the pipeline, the [...]