Pipeline Project Would get Multimillion-Dollar Environmental Review

A multimillion-dollar effort is moving ahead to understand how the proposed Alaska gas pipeline project would change the physical, economic, social and cultural environments along the line's path through the state. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commissionis leading the environmental review of the $32 billion to $41 billion project that would pipe 4.5 billion cubic feet a day of North Slope natural gas through Canada to the Lower 48.