Alaska Gas: I have been following the prgress of efforts to get Alaska gas to market, for the last 25 years. for those of you 'outside' the natural gas is stranded on the north slope, held hostage by Big Oil, which has refused to sell, deal, or build a pipeline. Murkowski came into office three years ago saying it was a number one priority get a gasline built. Everyone in alaska, from Murkowski to environmentalists supports some sort of gas line,
but the alaska gasline port authority supports an all alaska effort to build a line parrallel to the pipeline, ending at an LNG plant in Valdez, to ship the gas to the west coast.
The ins and outs of this story are covered here-
but the latest thing is the opinion of Arlon Tussing, the dean of economists- he now says that LNG will not be competitive- uh-oh.

KTUU.com | Channel 2 News is Alaska's News Source: "Anchorage, Alaska - Many hoped that 2005 was to be, at long last, the year of the natural gas pipeline. But Gov. Frank Murkowski did not deliver on his pledge for a special session of the Legislature to consider a gas line contract. And 10 days ago, the governor put his negotiations with North Slope producers on hold for the holidays. In the end, more questions have been raised about the gas line in 2005 than have been answered. "