Where’s the port authority?
Sen. Gary Wilken, R-Fairbanks, wants to see the Alaska Gasline Port Authority.
“I eagerly wait for them to come to the table,” he said Monday at a meeting of the Senate Special Committee on Natural Gas Development.
So does Sen. Ralph Seekins, R-Fairbanks, the committee’s chairman. He said he asked his staff to get in touch with the group but said the all-Alaska proponents had “expressed some concern” that they have a role in setting the parameters for studies done by legislative consultants on the port authority’s liquefied natural gas proposal.
Seekins has invited the group and others to present their proposals before the committee.
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July 26th, 2006 at 8:37 am
The Alaska Gasline Port Authority welcomes the invitation to provide all the information necessary to give members of the legislature what they need to understand the viability and benefits of our project. We also look forward to working with the Legislature’s constultants in the process of fairly analyzing the economics and relative benefits of our project in comparison with all other proposals, however we have requested to participate in the establishment of the basic assumptions for the analysis for the reason as stated in our communication wtih Senator Seekins and Senator Therriault’s offices:
“Given our past experiences with the administration’s previous “results based” reviews of our project that were based upon erroneous assumptions and in some cases failure to even contact us, we believe it is necessary for us to participate in establishing the assumptions for the analysis and the conditions of the review to be performed by Econ One.”
We are pleased that Senators Seekins and Therriault are working with us to accomodate our request and look forward to proceeding with the analysis.