Alaska natural resource chief removed from job [View All]

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Alaska's natural resources commissioner was removed from his post by Gov. Frank Murkowski on Thursday after the commissioner said that state leaders were making too many financial concessions over a proposed North Slope pipeline.

Commissioner Tom Irwin resigned his post, along with several other top officials in the Department of Natural Resources, including two deputy commissioners and the directors of the Division of Oil and Gas and the Division of Mining, Land and Water, Murkowski said.

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Over the past week, Irwin had alleged that the state was making too many compromises to try to convince the major North Slope oil producers to build a natural gas pipeline.

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