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Gold/Mining/Energy : Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (102)	10/9/2005 6:19:30 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 570

Don't celebrate too much when you see confirmation of the deal by the legislature. They still have to do a deal with Canada and I don't think that will be too easy or quick. I've been posting stuff about the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project on this thread. and as you probably noticed the Canadians haven't been able to come to a conclusion on that All Canadian project yet, or even start the public hearings. So I wouldn't think a request coming from International Oil companies to benefit mostly the USA that will compete with Mackenzie Valley will get the fast track.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (102)	10/10/2005 12:38:49 PM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 570

The standard procedure is to stall everything for months and then complete the business in a flurry during the rush to adjournment in June (when the fishing season starts). Sometimes it gets rather comical, with state troopers dispatched to the airport to round up fleeing legislators to achieve a quorum. C'mon, now, that was in 1982! We haven't had anything that wild happen since then. And that was when the legislature and governor were different parties; even as much public support as the governor has lost, the GOP majority in the legislature won't want to embarrass Uncle Frank anymore than they have to to get reelected. It was pretty funny though.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (102)	10/10/2005 1:53:34 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 570

The standard procedure is to stall everything for months and then complete the business in a flurry during the rush to adjournment in June The General Assembly here works that way too. Everything gets passsed and voted on in the last days of the session. Several times in the past they have 'stopped the legislative clock' by pulling the plug on the electric clock in the assembly chamber at a few minutes to midnight on the last day of the session to buy themselves some more time. One year they pulled the plug on the clock at few minutes before midnight and continued to argue and vote on things for another three days.