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Lisa Murkowski: “Are we to believe that we are not able to move on anything up in the North Slope because we do not have a place to even…”

On the recordAugust 16, 2015
Are we to believe that we are not able to move on anything up in the North Slope because we do not have a place to even bank it if we can agree that a two-to-one mitigation ratio is reasonable and not extortion?
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Murkowski questions the inability to proceed with projects due to lack of mitigation banking.

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