Thursday
July 15, 2004
'Miss
Danica'
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Alaska: Governor
Tells Utility Commissioners They Can Help Alaska Gas Line
- The proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline needs the security
of long-term sales contracts before developers can take the multibillion-dollar
risk of starting construction, Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski
told the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Wednesday.
State utility commissions can
play a key role in making the project happen as local distribution
companies and gas and electrical utilities look to develop those
long-term deals for Alaska gas, the governor said.
"State regulatory commissions are critical to advancement
of the Alaska gas line," Murkowski told the group's summer
meeting today in Salt Lake City. "We need long-term sales
contracts to make the project work, we need state utility commissions
to assist in developing those contracts, and the nation needs
Alaska gas sooner rather than later."
The governor acknowledged that state rate-setting commissions
might be uneasy with utilities committing to long-term gas contracts.
"I realize this is an uncomfortable concept for many of
you because of past events in the energy trading business, but
we can't let past mistakes hurt our future. - Read
more...
Thursday - July 15, 2004
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Large floating drydock
Photo courtesy TDX
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 Alaska:
Remote
Alaskan Island Faces Economic Peril Under Proposed Federal Sanctions
- An impoverished Alaskan island community in the middle
of the Bering Sea faces an economic catastrophe if the federal
government succeeds in pressing proposed economic sanctions against
one of the island's major employers. In actions that have troubled
the 763 residents of St. Paul Island, the Justice Department
has demanded more than $15 million in penalties from the Native
corporation that serves the tiny island in the Pribilofs.
Located midway between Alaska
and Russia, the island's economy was already reeling from a federal
law banning the fur seal trade and the collapse of crab fisheries.
Now the Justice Department is seeking penalties that officials
say could deplete the resources of Tanadgusix Corp., the island's
Native corporation also known as TDX. A separate action threatened
by the General Services Administration could destroy TDX's once
promising business as a federal contractor. - Read
more...
Thursday - July 15, 2004
Columnist
 Dick
Morris: Mr.
Sharon, Build This Wall - As the Cold War waned, President
Ronald Reagan went to Berlin and defiantly turned to the Soviet
Union and said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Now, we should turn toward Israel and say, despite the recent
decision of the International Court, "Mr. Sharon, build
this wall!" - Read
more...
Thursday - July 15, 2004
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