With negotiations delayed, Administration proposes $7M cut to gas line budget

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State officials have put a number on how much they will trim from next year’s budget for marketing liquefied natural gas from the proposed pipeline: $7 million.
Gov. Bill Walker (File photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
That’s the cut Governor Bill Walker’s administration will make to its budget request. It reduces the number of companies marketing gas to customers in Asia from three to one.
Deputy Natural Resources Commissioner Marty Rutherford told the House Finance Co