AJOC by Tim Bradner.  

Despite Gov. Bill Walker’s threat of a veto, House leaders are pushing ahead with a bill that would put sideboards on the governor’s plan to expand a state-led backup gas pipeline into a large project that could be seen as a competitor to the Alaska LNG Project, the industry-led gas project in which the state is also a 25 percent owner. …In a related development, Alaska Gasline Development Corp. Public Affairs Manager Miles Baker said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers informed AGDC on March 2 that it was pausing work on a revised supplemental environmental impact statement on the state’s backup Alaska Stand-Alone Pipeline, or ASAP, until the governor’s intentions for the project are more clear.  More…