Alaska governor’s gas team schedules final town hall meetings Feb. 18-28

Gov. Sarah Palin’s gas line team has scheduled 16 town hall meetings Feb. 18-28 to update Alaskans on efforts to advance a gas pipeline under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act or AGIA. The meetings are to provide information and encourage Alaskans to submit written comments before the March 6 public comment deadline. Details on how and where to submit comments are available at www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us/agia.

All meetings will be from 6-8 p.m. except for Barrow, which will be from 2-5 p.m. and Anchorage, which will be from 7- 9 p.m. Dates and locations are as follows: Feb. 18, Palmer, The Palmer Depot; Feb. 19, Anchorage, UAA Lucy Cuddy Hall; Feb. 20: Sitka, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room, and Kotzebue, NWAB Assembly Chambers, and McGrath, Cap’n Snow Center Assembly Room; Feb. 21, Ketchikan, Cape Fox Lodge, Mountain Room, and Nome, Old St. Joseph’s Church Hall, and Bethel, UAF Kuskokwim Campus, Yup’iit Piciryarait Cultural Center; Feb. 22, Juneau, Centennial Hall, Hickel Room; Feb. 25, Delta Junction, Community Center, and Kenai, Kenai Peninsula College; Feb. 26, Barrow, Inupiat Heritage Center, Dillingham, Dillingham Middle School Gymnasium; Feb. 27, Fairbanks, Carlson Center, and Kodiak, High School Commons; Feb. 28, Valdez, Valdez Convention and Civic Center, Ballroom 1.

—Petroleum News