Ballot measure orders Legislature to create all Alaska gas project

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

As PNA comes off the press on July 30, Our Gas, Our Future , a citizens watchdog company, will be presenting the state Division of Elections in Anchorage with a Citizens Initiative to put a measure on the 2002 General Election ballot. The measure orders the Alaska Legislature to create an all Alaska gas project.

Our Gas, Our Future founder Scott Heyworth, an Anchorage longshoreman said in an April statement that he was concerned Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles had chosen the Alaska Highway route, which is largely through Canada, versus an all Alaska route similar to that of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline which runs from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez.

“The only way Alaskans will get a square deal is if the Alaska Legislature initiates, votes for and funds a best interest finding using outside industry experts to determine which route is best for Alaskan,” he said in a statement.