Governor Gives Gas Pipeline
Update
December 18, 2005
Sunday
In a press conference held Friday in Anchorage, Alaska Governor
Frank H. Murkowski provided an update on gas pipeline negotiations
and announced that negotiations are suspended over the holidays.
The state will reengage with the producers BP and ExxonMobil
once they provide satisfactory responses on several key contract
issues that the state has presented to them.
"We are at what I would
call a defining moment," said the governor. "All of
the parties have reached agreement on fiscal terms that are very
positive for the state. But there are other critical issues on
the table that, for the state, are non-negotiable. I am confident
that BP and ExxonMobil will come back to the state after the
holidays with satisfactory resolution to the items we have presented
to them."
ConocoPhillips and the state
announced in October that they had reached a contract agreement
that includes the provisions the state is asking of ExxonMobil
and BP.
"I have invited the CEO's of the three companies to Juneau
in early 2006," said the governor. "I have received
the commitment from the CEO's of BP and ExxonMobil to resolve
these negotiations expeditiously - and I look forward to their
conclusion. The Alaska gas pipeline is about Alaska's future,
but it is also critical to the nation. Alaska is America's pipeline
to energy independence."
Source of News & Audio:
Office of the Governor
www.gov.state.ak.us
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