2010-07-09                     House Journal                      Page 2611
    SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE CONCURRENT                                                                                       
    RESOLUTION NO. 2(FIN)                                                                                                       
    Urging the Governor to commit to providing energy security for                                                              
    all Alaskans by supporting the in-state gas pipeline project and                                                            
    assisting the project in its efforts to secure needed permits, rights-                                                      
    of-way, engineering specifications, and other approvals necessary                                                           
    or desirable, to bundle the approvals for sale on the market to                                                             
    interested private sector pipeline companies, and in all other ways                                                         
    to act in due haste to move the in-state natural gas pipeline to a                                                          
    construction phase; urging the Governor to support the persons                                                              
    working on the in-state gas pipeline project in discussions with                                                            
    and obtaining of letters of intent from potential industrial users of                                                       
    natural gas, including the Agrium U.S., Inc., facility, the                                                                 
    ConocoPhillips/Marathon facility, mining companies, and other                                                               
    businesses interested in value-added processing of petroleum                                                                
    gases transported in a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope or                                                         
    Brooks Range foothills for the purpose of providing jobs for                                                                
    Alaskans and ensuring the economic viability of the pipeline;                                                               
    urging the Governor to pursue the renewal of the license issued by                                                          
    the United States Department of Energy to export natural gas                                                                
    produced on the North Slope or in the Brooks Range foothills that                                                           
    exceeds the needs and demands of Alaskans for affordable natural                                                            
    gas; urging the Governor to continue negotiations with one or                                                               
    more entities capable of producing and supplying natural gas from                                                           
    the North Slope or Brooks Range foothills to Southcentral and                                                               
    Interior Alaska on commercially reasonable terms and in                                                                     
    sufficient quantities to support the energy needs of Alaskans and                                                           
    the economic viability of a pipeline; urging the Governor to                                                                
    expedite the permits necessary or desirable to construct and                                                                
    operate a gas-to-liquids facility at Point Mackenzie if a feasibility                                                       
    document shows that it is economically viable; and urging the                                                               
    Governor to take the actions requested in this resolution, as                                                               
    necessary and appropriate, immediately and with all reasonable                                                              
    speed and effort.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
    Legislative Resolve No. 41                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
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The following was enrolled, signed by the Speaker and Chief Clerk,                                                              
President and Secretary of the Senate, and the engrossed and enrolled