The lone Republican
Sen. Gene Therriault of North Pole said he voted against the Senate version of the oil tax bill because the bill had technical issues he thought still needed to be ironed out.
“It was a very close vote for me,” he said.
Therriault said he supports a tax based on gross production rather than on net profits but didn’t vote for an amendment this morning that would have changed the tax to a gross because, he said, the proposal hadn’t been properly vetted. A fiscal analysis of the proposal only arrived last night.
News-Miner reporters Stefan Milkowski and Eric Lidji bring you up-to-date info about the governor's oil tax and
the gas line plans as well as tossing in some tidbits that have nowhere else to go.
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