April 15, 2012 - Northern Gas Pipelines

4-15-12

ADN by Richard Mauer: The Senate on Saturday grabbed a modest, slow-moving bill encouraging petroleum drilling in the state's Interior, boosted it to the top of its agenda and stuffed it with a key piece of the oil tax reform it had been unable to pass in a much larger bill. Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson Co-Sponsors: Rep. Lynn, Rep. Costello, Rep. Kawasaki, Rep. Kerttula, Rep. Johnson, Rep. Tuck Rep. Peggy Wilson (R-2) House Majority Whip Chair, (H) TRA Com. “An Act relating to fiscal notes for bills directing or resulting in the adoption, amendment, or repeal of [...]

4-14-12

ADN by Richard Mauer -- The Senate on Friday took apart a House bill that would promote construction of a small-diameter gas line from the North Slope, leaving prospects for the line alive but distant and adding a new ripple of drama in the Capitol as the Legislature lurched into its last weekend. The substitute to House Bill 9 took place at a morning meeting of the Senate's Community and Regional Affairs Committee under the unhappy gaze of the bill's principal authors -- none other than the speaker of the [...]