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Article: Murkowski may sign Alaska gas deal, bypass legislature.(signing a contract for a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Canada)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- October 16, 2006
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Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski on Thursday said he's still considering signing a contract for a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Canada and the lower 48 despite the -state Legislature's refusal to approve the deal.
The statement is a reversal of the position Murkowski took publicly during his unsuccessful re-election campaign and contradicts the legal opinion of his own attorney general (OD Aug.24,p1).
"I'm not going to [enact the contract without legislative approval] for the simple reason that it would be litigated, and it's not in the state's interests to litigate something as important as this," Murkowski said on Aug. 7.
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