By WESLEY LOY JUNEAU - Members of the state House of Representatives voted late Tuesday to approve a license and a $500 million subsidy for a Canadian company proposing to build a gas pipeline down the Alaska Highway to Alberta.
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of the companies, BP and Conoco, recently formed a partnership to build a competing pipeline down the Alaska Highway.

By Jeremiah Scoby As our state faces the calamity of our lawmakers passing a deal to give TransCanada $500 million in a piece of poorly thought-out

By Stefan Milkowski JUNEAU - The Alaska House of Representatives on Monday came one step closer to a vote on the TransCanada natural gas pipeline proposal.
Members of the House Rules Committee moved out of committee a bill granting a state license and subsidy worth up to $500 million to the Canadian pipeline builder.
seven-member committee voted on three amendments.

Politicians in Alaska are expected to vote today on whether to allow TransCanada Corp. to build a $26.6-billion US natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to Alberta.
As late as Monday, some members of Alaska's House of Representatives were predicting a close vote.
owners, ConocoPhillips and BP PLC. ExxonMobil Corp. also holds sizable stranded natural gas assets in the region.

By Erick Cordero I write to encourage you to treat the All-Alaska Gas Line as a real option in the fight to bring Alaskan gas to market.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska lawmakers vote Tuesday on whether to give a Canadian company the green light to pursue a natural gas pipeline project that could unlock 4.5 billion cubic feet of North Slope gas reserves daily.
The vote by the 40-member Alaska House of Representatives comes as the debate over domestic natural gas and oil production grows increasingly divisive and partisan. The state lawmakers are being closely watched by Alaskans, energy officials in Washington and Ottawa, as well as by industry executives worldwide.
rom the state — to pursue the pipeline project.

Through 35 years of false starts and disappointments, it's been Alaska's greatest pipe dream: A natural-gas pipeline that would unlock the state's rich gas reserves for the massive market in the continental United States.
Now, with energy supply issues on the global front-burner, the expensive, complex and risky project may finally be about to leap into the realm of reality. And a critical springboard is emerging from a confluence of forces: A state government hungry for revenues, a Canadian pipeline company hungry for volumes, and some major producers who don't want to get left out in the cold.
$625-million in pre-construction development costs, in return for a binding obligation to seek customer commitments within two years and file for regulatory approvals by 2012.