According to APRN, TransCanada and Exxon Mobil say they will hold off on filing resource reports with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the AGIA-licensed Alaska Pipeline Project.
Such reports are the next step before a scoping process begins for the proposed, large-diameter gas pipeline from Alaska through Alberta, Canada. Scoping meetings are scheduled to begin Jan. 18 in Anchorage.
TransCanada Vice President of Alaska Development Tony Palmer explained the delay was caused by comments Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell made in October.
"The resource reports are complete and ready to be filed. But as you will recall earlier this fall Governor Parnell encouraged the North Slope producers to work with the APP to evaluate an LNG option," he said.
Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects Larry Persily commented, ""Look it's an unfortunate delay certainly from a federal agency perspective, everyone was looking forward to reviewing those resource reports. It may only be temporary. If they turn in the reports in a few weeks everyone may start reviewing the data that will be used in the EIS. There's certainly more time, not much, but still time to stay on schedule for a complete application to the FERC in October 2012."
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