{"id":3461,"date":"2015-11-02T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/senate-finance-advances-transcanada-buyout-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T06:09:00","slug":"senate-finance-advances-transcanada-buyout-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/senate-finance-advances-transcanada-buyout-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Finance advances TransCanada buyout bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The Senate Finance Committee has advanced legislation authorizing funding for a state buyout of a partner in a major proposed gas project.<\/p>\n<p>The committee advanced a rewrite of Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s bill that includes funding requested by the administration for buyout- and project-related costs.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has laid out a timeline for completing the buyout of TransCanada Corp.\u2019s interest in the project by Dec. 1. Project partners are scheduled to vote Dec. 4 on the 2016 work scope and budget.<\/p>\n<p>TransCanada\u2019s interests would be transferred to the state-sanctioned Alaska Gasline Development Corp., which already would hold the state\u2019s interest in liquefaction facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A Senate vote is expected as early as Tuesday. If the bill passes, it would go to the House, which has been holding hearings on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The Senate Finance Committee has advanced legislation authorizing funding for a state buyout of a partner in a major proposed gas project. The committee advanced a rewrite of Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s bill that includes funding requested by the administration for buyout- and project-related costs. The administration has laid out a timeline for completing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}