1-20-12 Alaska Gasline Takes Step Forward – Keystone Takes Step Backward

Peter Foster in yesterday's FP urges us to, "follow the money and expose misinformation" about Keystone.   Yesterday, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation announced the ASAP Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be published in the Federal Register today, Friday, January 20, 2012.  Here is the DEIS link.     *     Mat-Su Frontiersman Story, by Andrew Wellner.      *     The Alaska Dispatch provides Governor Sean Parnell's (NGP file Photo) State of the State speech transcript: "Currently, Alaska is pursuing parallel tracks to get a gasline. The State financially [...]

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1-19-12 New Tax Bill Introduced

Comment.  Yesterday SB 167 appeared as a new bill though it appears to be the same decoupling bill (SB305) that Senators Bert Stedman (L) & Joe Paskvan (NGP Photos) sent to the Governor in 2010, and was subsequently vetoed by the Governor.  It appears to do nothing to improve Alaska's investment climate by reducing oil taxes, reducing progressivity, or increasing credits (like HB110).  Some are predicting that it could morph into the Senate's own version of an oil tax bill this session (eventually).        -dh

By |2016-12-22T22:32:55-09:00January 20th, 2012|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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