Earlier this week Governor Bill Walker instructed two Alaska Gas Development Corporation board members not to sign confidentiality agreements, a move members are questioning.
The board of the state corporation is currently working on two major gas pipeline projects and is now seeking clarification on the request by asking how it can operate if members do not sign confidentiality agreements.
When Walker announced the instructions he stated that it was a bid to have the board operate more transparently.
The AGDC board met January 8, missing three members who were removed by Walker at the same time of the instruction to not sign, and board chairman John Burns said he had asked the corporations’ attorney and state attorney general to analyze the impact of new members not signing the pledge.
The board also reportedly approved plans to cut spending by $90 million over this year and next.
