Well, this article is wrong three times. A) The MGP would not negate the Alaska Pipeline. B) The MGP would not feed the lower 48 States, but instead feed production of dirty tar sands crude. C) Natural Gas is another fossil fuel and the combination of both climate change and peak oil make it impossible to see natural gas as "...the only option for a long term energy solution."
Other than that, the article is great!
--M
Industry minister: Canada could build gas pipeline first
by Ted Land
Monday, September 22, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska is looking at some Canadian competition for a long-talked about natural gas pipeline.
Bob McLeod, the Minister of Industry in the Northwest Territories, said Canada should be in position to begin construction by 2011, years ahead of the proposed Alaskan gas pipeline.
He said the Mackenzie Gas Project would make the Alaskan gas line unnecessary, since Canada would be first to feed to the Lower 48.
"We don't really see it as a competition, we see it as a development of two pipelines," McLeod said. "And our preference, obviously, is that the Mackenzie Valley pipeline will go ahead first, followed by the Alaska pipeline two or three years afterwards."
The Mackenzie Gas Project would construct a 750-plus-mile pipeline to transport natural gas to North American markets.
The minister said natural gas is really the only option for a long term energy solution.
Contact Ted Land at tland@ktuu.com
