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Mazie Hirono: “It could be 20, 30, 40 years and so that commitment will also commit the rate payers to paying for basically the cost of…”

On the recordJune 13, 2016
It could be 20, 30, 40 years and so that commitment will also commit the rate payers to paying for basically the cost of building the pipeline would go to the rate payers.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono discusses the long-term financial commitments of pipeline projects on rate payers.

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