Oil Patch Insider In-state gas pipeline schedules bus tour for Alaska legislators
The Alaska Stand Alone Natural Gas Pipeline is inviting legislators on a bus tour of the northern segment of the project’s proposed route.
What pipeline project?
First there was AGPA, the Alaska Gasline Port Authority — a project to take North Slope gas to Valdez for liquefaction and shipment — and then ANGDA, the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, formed by citizen initiative to promote the LNG project but subsequently focused on a spur line into Southcentral from a main pipeline to market.
These acronyms for in-state gas pipeline projects have now been joined by ASAGPP, the Alaska Stand Alone Natural Gas Pipeline, the project name adopted for a state study of a proposed North Slope to Southcentral bullet line.
ASAGPP is headed by Harry Noah, hired by former Gov. Sarah Palin to head up in-state efforts to get gas to Alaskans. Noah has invited legislators on a tour of the northern end of the project route.
In a July 29 letter, he said an Aug. 20-21 tour is the first of three trips — the others are planned for early and mid September — which will begin in Anchorage with a flight which will pick up legislators in Fairbanks and head to Deadhorse. There the group will be met by a motor coach which will take them along the Dalton Highway next to the proposed pipeline route.
The tour will overnight in Coldfoot and go on to Prospect Creek in the morning where a plane will meet the group for the return trip to Fairbanks and then on to Anchorage.
Noah and Mike Metz of Michael Baker Jr., the contractor working on the project, will be providing information along the route on the proposed right of way and construction processes and procedures.
—Kristen Nelson
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