The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will work on combining two competing natural gas pipeline projects in Alaska.
Dow Jones reported Friday that the energy body volunteered to help merge the competing projects of TransCanada Corp., supported by the Alaska government, and a joint venture by ConocoPhillips and BP PLC.
Sarah Palin has NOT been "opposing" the oil companies or "fighting" them. She has been working for and with them.
This is another McCain/Palin lie that needs to be exposed.
This isn't being done by the large media outfits""yet. But as the netroots have proven time and time again, we can force them to take a look at the claims that Sarah Palin is an "energy expert" and that her pipeline would deliver "clean" energy to the Lower 48.
Now, so many lies are being told by the McCain/Palin Campaign about Sarah Palin, her claims of energy experience and her pipeline that some of them have been Busted by various fact checking organizations. It is not enough, but it is a start.
For example the NYTs recently took on McCain/Palin suggestions that Palin's Pipeline was an accomplished fact (emphasis added):
The reality, however, is far more ambiguous than the impression Ms. Palin has left at the convention and on the campaign trail.
Certainly she proved effective in attracting developers to a project that has eluded Alaska governors for three decades. But an examination of the pipeline project also found that Ms. Palin has overstated both the progress that has been made and the certainty of success.
The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin's relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs.
And CQ Politics took at look at the pipeline and even touched on the Palin "energy expert" myth:
That all sounds quite impressive. But it's not true that Palin got an agreement to build the pipeline, as we explain here. Nor does the evidence support the claim that it would cost $40-billion and be the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history, as we explain here. [snip]
Before her election as governor, Palin opposed the idea of routing the pipeline through Canada, a version of which her predecessor, Frank Murkowski, had advocated. Instead she pushed for what she and other proponents called an "all-Alaska" pipeline -- one that would go to the Alaskan port city of Valdez, from which the gas could be shipped to market.
She even appeared in advertisements endorsing the all-Alaska option, and on the wall of her gubernatorial campaign headquarters in 2006 was a sign saying, "Canada my ass, it's Alaska's gas." [snip]
After she was elected governor, Palin expressed a willingness to consider all options, as long as there was competition for the project. She pressed the Legislature to pass the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, known as AGIA, which provided $500-million in state funds to whichever company offered the best proposal for the project.
The Alaska State Legislature accepted TransCanada's proposal in a bill Palin signed on Aug. 27, 2008. [snip]
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