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March 4, 2015
JUNEAU, Alaska — Tensions flared Monday between members of the Alaska House and Gov. Bill Walker over how best to advance state efforts to secure a major gas pipeline project, with a visibly upset Walker denouncing a bill from the speaker of the House as “the most un-Alaskan thing I've ever seen put together.”
House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, introduced legislation that would limit the role of a state-backed corporation in an alternate gas line project proposed by Walker. The state has been pursuing a major liquefied natural gas project, known as Alaska LNG, with BP, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, TransCanada Corp. and Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, which Chenault and other lawmakers want to ensure remains the state's primary focus.
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