Did you add the (and Conoco) yourself?
I posted a link directly form ConocoPhillips web site talking about the Candian route being the best economically. I design Oil & Gas Facilities for the North Slope and ConocoPhillips Alaska is my only client.
You do not know what you are talking about.
Yes, I added the Conoco part. My husband works for the Marine division, which built the LNG tankers to move the gas from Valdez. I am aware that there was a change in the
plan, regarding the longer route, but the article, today, indicates that the shorter route was never completely abandoned.
We considered it significant that Conoco wasn't included as pushing for the longer pipeline. Conoco either wasn't included in the early planning or different divisions of Conoco were not communicating.
Here is another paragraph, that might clear things up.
The port authority, created in 199 to build a gas pipeline, says it has $18 billion in federal guarantees and the permits to build a pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez in the southern part of the state, where gas would b e liquefied and loaded onto tankers. But BP and Exxon favor an alternative, longer pipeline through Canada, a pipeline over which they'd have more control, the authority charges. (This is what I was telling you about and for which the ships are already started)