APTN National News
Support for a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to Alberta via the Yukon is fading.
Alaska’s Gov. Sean Parnell met with the CEO’s of the major gas producers on Alaska’s North-Slope earlier this month.
Parnell is asking industry to support an Alaska only pipeline to ship natural gas from Alaska to Asia-Pacific markets.
For 30 years, talks and studies have been ongoing about building a 2,700 kilometre natural gas pipeline from Alaska to Alberta via the Yukon.
Parnell wants a secondary proposed route that would keep jobs in Alaska and get the product to Asian markets.
Possible jobs and roughly $70 million to $100 million in tax revenue for the Yukon and First Nations would be lost.
Alaska says the new route is all about business.
