Alaska House members asked Governor Bill Walker’s administration Wednesday to clarify the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s role in the Alaska LNG Project.
After passing the bill for the state to buy TransCanada shares of the proposed gasline, the House created Resolution 301.
That resolution requests the governor to clearly designated AGDC as Alaska’s exclusive representative and to identify who will advise the team members of the gas team.
It also asks for a clearer picture of the organizational structure and authority for those who support AGDC.
Nikiski’s Speaker of the House Mike Chenault said in a release: “AGDC was created to advance the gasline project and it is my hope that the governor will use it to its full potential. We’ve seen a deviation from the path laid out in Senate Bill 138 and a divergence from our intent to keep politics out of the pipeline process and to entrust our pipeline company, AGDC, with the tools and talents to move this project forward.”
HR 301 passed by a vote of 21 to 17 today.
The House finished its work Wednesday. The Senate passed the buyout bill Tuesday but cannot gavel out until Thursday when it will meet for the last time this session.
