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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

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

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