02-09-2008, 12:48 PM
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| Palin got pretty good press about the pipeline before she was picked for the VP slot: IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Palin's Gas Pipeline Isn't Hot Air Quote:
On Aug. 1, the same day the call for a vote on drilling began on the House floor, the Alaska state Senate approved a package of measures to license a new natural gas pipeline. House Bill 3001 lets Palin award the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act license to TransCanada Alaska, a pipeline builder that cast a winning bid of five.
The legislature had been trying for 30 years to authorize something like this and, up until now, had blown it. Palin got it through. Getting it off the ground, the state says, will be the biggest construction project in U.S. history.
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Small wonder, then, that Alaska has one popular governor. If only congressional Democrats could also get off the dime.
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