text: Now, starts the pre-election displacement of responsibility dance.  Perhaps a little self-reflection on the part of Hawker et.al. is in order.   They charged ahead with  this half-baked AKLNG scheme  in 2014 with SB 138 strictly for political gain prior to a statewide election.  They had already spent $540 million on their last half-baked  scheme  (AGIA) which had  become unviable; however, they were obligated to bring along TransCanada on AKLNG or risk paying them "treble damages" because they couldn't clarify when the project was unviable (they wound up paying Transcanada $67 million hush money last fall anyway).  Amazingly both AGIA and AKLNG were  funded even though they didn't have state approval from the AOGCC to sell that volume of gas from the Slope.   Please understand didn't get that conditional authorization from the AOGCC to have access to the gas until October 2015.  You know a good reason to stop hitting yourself on the head is that it feels so good when you stop.