...formerly an oil and gas attorney with the Alaska Department of Law, said "imprudent" had a well-understood meaning in pipeline law, and she wanted to make sure the new wording accomplished the same thing. Guttenberg said the emotion over the issue...

...were judged "non-responsive." "In other words, it received just one bid," Marks said. Provisions of Palin's pipeline law run counter to commercial arrangements that producers need as gas shippers, Marks said. Under Palin's law, the...

...we are crowning a winner. That's not good." Palin's gas line team received five applications under the new gas pipeline law, plus one from ConocoPhillips which didn't conform to the state's criteria. ConocoPhillips later joined up with...