Political Quotes

“As the Senator from Oklahoma has expressed, we have not had any hearings. We don't know what the scientific answer is. But there is the fear of the people and therefore an objection to any offshore activity. Then there is the question of trying to get permits to do something for which we don't know what the impact will be. We have never been able to get permits even on land, let alone the difficulty of offshore. There is also a considerable discussion that has taken place in the engineering community about the prospects of having to loop the line at sea because if you had a break or a fracture and the tremendous amount of volume of somewhere in the area of 4 to 6 billion cubic feet a day flowing through that into a market in the Midwest, perhaps in Chicago, if there was a fracture, you would have a devastating supply situation. And your ability to get at it in the winter with the heavy ice, which is 4 and 5 and 6 and 9 feet thick, would mandate a duplicate route. These are all theoretical, but nevertheless they are concerns expressed. I will highlight the concern associated with this route. It is certainly a route that is less from the standpoint of distance. There are a couple other aspects we should point out. This is not necessarily a mountainous route. This is a route that parallels the highway and also is a route proposed in 1941 for a railroad to Alaska.”