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• Monday, September 15, 2008 09:02 PM

  Someone is covering the Pipeline to the Tar Sands story - democratic underground:

  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3954708

  "Unraveling the Gordians Knot of Gov. Palin’s Alaska Gas Pipeline Scam"

  "...An earlier proposal by Conoco, BP and Exxon made to Alaska’s former governor, Murkowski apparently fell through because Alaskans were unsatisfied with demands made by the trio of gas drillers. I can see how the residents of the state might have been worried when the big three natural gas guys got together and said “We’re gonna build a gas pipeline, and we are gonna do it our way, whether you like it or not.” The citizens of Alaska might have wanted someone to at least let them pretend that they had a choice. And maybe they were worried about bribes and corruption.

  So, they traded one Republican Business friendly governor for another one, and she participated in a scheme to make it look like they had a choice—when all along they were going to end up with a natural gas pipeline being built by the big three natural gas drillers---and one of the big three’s partners from an oil deal between Alberta and Texas. Neat public relations trick that. And all the citizens had to do for all that satisfaction was pay half a billion bucks.

  That's quite a bit more money than was involved in any of her other shenanigans, wasn't it? Just on balance, wouldn't that then be the most important and revealing story?

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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