Mr. McDowell.  First, TAPS is a FERC controlled pipeline, its open to anyone who wants to ship products down to Valdez.  Second, If you could sell all of the proven gas reserves at $3/mmbtu on the North Slope you would generate roughly $93 billion in gross revenues.  If you converted the same natural gas into liquids you would produce 4.2 billion barrels of liquids.  If you sold these high value products as crude oil at $50/barrel you would generate $210 billion in gross revenues.  A big difference.   Governor Bill Walker knows that there are better options for the gas on the North Slope as have Governors before him.  
The North Slope has over 30 billion barrels of heavy crude oil.  You can not produce this heavy crude with traditional methods of recovery - heat because it too shallow and close to the overlying perm frost.  A diluent from the GTL process can extract 3 to 4 billion barrels of this.  So many other options that the Governor rejects because it doesn't build a pipeline.