Alaska Lawmakers Question Gas Line's Economics

By ANNE SUTTON

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's decades-long efforts to build a natural gas pipeline to deliver gas to the Lower 48 looks better than ever.

Or worse than ever.

State lawmakers brought back mixed messages from an energy conference in Washington, D.C., where the merits of a proposed Alaska pipeline — Gov. Sarah Palin's hallmark project — were viewed against increased competition from both shale and liquefied natural gas. ...