With the pipeline now getting lots of extra scrutiny people are realizing that it's not a done deal.
The PipeLine Page
These are weekly prepared speeches to push for the Gas Pipeline. Slogan "Get North Slope Gas to Market". They occur while the legislature was in session working on the bill. These and her state of the state speeches are done with a teleprompter.
Hat tip to a detailed climate impact review. Dengre's Pipeline Climate Change post
Video 1
What's wrong with the old law, SGDA? Our gas is not "stranded".
Video 2
Less than 3 months in office AGIA (Alaskan Gasline Inducement Act) will 1) Insure a Project 2)Opening the whole slope 3)Alaskan jobs 4)Gas for Alaska at a discount and with Outtake points.
More videos below the fold
Video 3 (2/23/07)
Inducement Act to companies that build and companies that hold the leases to the gas. Protect Alaskans investment and provide Alaskan hiring stations. Require state regulations be processed quickly.
Video 4 (3/2/07)
Press Conference after DC visit, Bush needs gas. Don't let the energy resourse set untapped any longer. Don't give up Alaskan rights or Alaskan constitution. Self sufficient 49th state. She reads a list of all the big energy companies that are there with her. Clear and Transparent benchmarks. Lower tariffs demanded. Jaw-dropping 1/2 million dollars. Don't need favors from federal government just support. Mutually beneficial project for State, Developers and the Nation.
Video 5 (3/9/07)
Why we are giving money away. It's skin in the game. It's not a gift, it's an investment. Available to anyone who meets the term. Even someone not in Alaska right now. Use the 300 million budgeted from the prior bill.
Video 6 (3/16/07)
Limits to what Alaskan government can do to push the project without getting into legalities. Low tariff (explain earlier as transportation costs) First mention of North Slope producers who seem to be raising concerns at this time. Royalty share of the gas either by taking cash or taking gas. Pipeline builder will not be taxed for 1st 10 years.
Video 7 (3/23/07)
Getting Natural Gas to Alaskans at reasonable price. 4 gateways. Encourage construction of pipeline. Require pipeline sponsor provides at least 4 outtake point, allow contract for spur lines, distance sensitive rates. So that Alaskans pay less than rest of nation.
Video 8 (3/30/07)
The legislative hallway. We are listening. AGIA carefully designed to get more than one finalist. Let's make gas taxes simple. Don't amend AGEA. Just because producers say they don't need the incentive doesn't mean we won't give it to them.
Video 9 (4/6/07)
Steady march thru legislature. Must past it this session. We must not change it. Don't allow critics to side track us. Fieldwork should start in summer 2007. Critics are espouse myths about face to face meetings. No going backward. Call your legislatures to pass this bill.
Video 10 (4/13/07)
A commissioner from the Gas Line Team. Top concern of the state for Alaskan hir incentive. Applicants must hire Alaskans and Alaskan businesses. Establish headquarters in Alaska. Negtiate a project labor agreeement between managment and labor to stablize labor costs. No union strikes allowed. Job training program. Expansion provisions- if they find more gas over 40-50 years. Commit to instate delivery.
Video 11 (4/20/07)
Every legislator is onboard. Lobbyists are saying we should only negtiate with producers who wanted set taxes for 35 years. Old negotiation route was bad. They will continue to ask too much of Alaska. Federal wants Alaska to step up to the plate. Government's role is to provide incentives.
Video 12 (4/27/07)
Applicants seek rolled-in-rates. Opponents say this forces producers to subsidize pipeline builders. Our gasline will not be like other gasline. The federal governement have secured billion of dollars in loan guarantees. Look to our neighbors in Canada why rolled-in-rates work.
Video 13 (5/4/07)
Lt. Governor. - The big energy companies liked old process better. Our tough requirements are fair. Encourage competive environment. Our Gas Line Team has spent countless hours.
Video 14 (5/11/07) 30 minutes
Press Conference. Great day it passed. Sincere appreciation to our legislators and Gas Line Team for great effort. Legislators speak. Probably a decade before we get the first gas. Long list of speakers follwed by even longer list of consultant names. Now more talking. Confident a number of applicants will participate. Wait, not passed, just passed out. Still working on final version between house/senate. Questions from the press. We only need ONE applicant. The press is pressing for answers, Palin won't give them. Timeframe probably won't require special session.
Video 15 (5/18/07)
Passed bill last week. Congratulations. What's the next step. Issue a request for application (RFA) the development of which is in session. The Gas Line Team will review applicants.
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One year later 5 applications were submitted to the governor. Only 1 made it out of the governor's committee for public comment.
In video 14 you may have noticed my bolded statement where Palin and a legislator both say that only ONE qualified applicant is needed. Government works in mysterious ways but when Christy details in her link below that TransCanada's former lobbyist wrote the bill that only TransAmerica was able to qualify for then the salmon is getting ripe.
Christy1947 Pipeline bill author was TransCanada's lobbist
There were 5 applicants.
The applicants are Alaska Gasline Port Authority, AEnergia LLC, TransCanada, Sinopec ZPEB and Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.
I don't think that group includes any of the companies that own leases on the gas itself. At the moment the pipeline is a pipedream :)