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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Tuesday he is ordering state lawmakers into a special session to force a new decision on his top priority: property tax breaks for the company proposing to build a massive pipeline system to ship natural gas from the North Slope to tidewater.<\/p>\n

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Dunleavy outlined his plan during a news conference at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

The special session, to start 10 a.m. Thursday morning, \u201cwill go on as long as they need to come up with a decision,\u201d he said at the news conference.<\/p>\n

The Legislature\u2019s ongoing regular session ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday night, and legislators will enter special session the following morning.<\/p>\n

The governor has characterized property tax-relief for the project as his top priority, and at the news conference he accused lawmakers of risking Alaska\u2019s future by rejecting his plan.<\/p>\n

The bill would replace state and local petroleum property taxes with an \u201calternative volumetric tax\u201d on natural gas that would eventually flow through the pipeline. That gives Glenfarne Group, the company developing the pipeline in conjunction with the state, a tax break that its leaders have said is necessary to attract investors.<\/p>\n

Negotiations to pass the governor\u2019s preferred legislation fell apart on Monday, and Dunleavy blamed lawmakers for that outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a decision on the part of a handful of folks in Juneau who wish, for whatever reason I don\u2019t understand, (to) play with the future of Alaska,\u201d he said at the news conference.<\/p>\n

Legislative critics of Dunleavy\u2019s approach said Glenfarne had provided too little information on its cost estimates, thus making it impossible for them to determine whether the proposed tax break was appropriate. Some argued that the process had been too rushed. Dunleavy introduced his proposal in March, with the regular session half over.<\/p>\n

But the governor had harsh words for those lawmakers. He said they were focused on the wrong things after an extremely cold winter that strained energy supplies in the populated Railbelt corridor.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night there was time to shove a spay and neuter bill into an invasive species bill in (House) Finance,\u201d he said at Tuesday\u2019s news conference. \u201cSo Rome is burning and we\u2019re shoving a spay and neuter bill into an invasive species bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dunleavy was referring to a popular bill to establish a statewide spay and neuter fund, House Bill 258, which was combined during Monday\u2019s House Finance Committee meeting with another bill related to animals, Senate Bill 174, that would establish a state invasive species council. It has since been removed from the bill.<\/p>\n

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a featured speaker at the conference, also nudged lawmakers to accept Dunleavy\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n

As a former governor of North Dakota, Burgum said he considered it \u201cinappropriate\u201d for him to insert himself into Alaska legislative business. However, he said lawmakers should focus on getting the gas pipeline built before worrying about how the revenues from it would be allocated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing for when we\u2019re competing (for) capital that can go anywhere around the world, the key thing for Alaska is: Get the project,\u201d he said at the news conference. Alaskans should not worry about the revenue distributions until after a project is built and providing its promised myriad economic benefits, he said.<\/p>\n

Burgum\u2019s comments at the news conference echoed comments he made about the gas pipeline during his address at the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat project has to happen. And I would just invite Alaska to not get in your own way if you\u2019re worrying about, \u2018How do we divide up the pie,\u2019 and the pie hasn\u2019t even been baked yet,\u201d he said. He called the gasline \u201ca generational, transformational project that\u2019s going to affect the state, the communities, the prosperity, the universities. I mean, the benefits of this thing are unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But lawmakers say those benefits have not been made clear to them, and neither have the cost tradeoffs.<\/p>\n

Senate President Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, did not mince words in a newsletter she issued Tuesday morning that said the governor has demanded that lawmakers \u201cpass his version of a gas pipeline bill that no one is allowed to know much about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis version of a gas pipeline defies our Constitution \u2013 ignoring resource development for benefit of Alaskans (benefit for a private company), surrenders our taxing authority (removes local taxation authority, forbids financial transparency, logical financial assessment),\u201d Giessel\u2019s newsletter said.<\/p>\n

Dunleavy\u2019s decision to veto a pension-overhaul bill that had been two years in the making after lawmakers rejected this gas pipeline bill was a \u201ctransactional\u201d decision that is \u201cthe worst possible way to make public policy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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