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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dunleavy outlined his plan during a news conference at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage.\u00a0<\/span><\/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.<\/span><\/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.
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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.<\/span><\/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.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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