Notes and Sources

105.  Alaska’s former governor, Frank Murkowski, supported 20-percent equity ownership for the State, which would also bear 20 percent of the construction costs. 

106.  The Northern Pipeline Act awarded Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. the certificate for construction of the Canadian portion of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System along the Alaska Highway. After the passage of the Northern Pipeline Act, TransCanada purchased Foothills Pipe Line. 

107.  BP, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips, “Alaska Producer Pipeline Update” (May 2002), Slide 15, web site www.arcticgaspipeline.com/Reference/Documents& Presentations/ProducerInformation/5-02AlaskaProducerUpdate.ppt. 

108.  U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Seasonally Adjusted Producer Price Indices (PPI), Series WPS101. In May 2002 the PPI for iron and steel was 112.9; in June 2006 it was 194.0.