Alaska gas pipeline $500 million to fund startup costs of an overland route, the AGPA is now advocating a "Y" route which would first go to Valdez and later build a second fork toward Canada. On July 3, 2007, the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin announced that the State of Alaska was ready to receive applications to build a pipeline within the framework of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA). On January 4, 2008, a proposal by TransCanada was selected. Four other proposals were submitted: By Sinopec, AEnergia, the AGPA, which proposed a liquified natural gas project, and the Alaska Natural Gas Development
Governor of Curaçao of the Netherlands ("status aparte"). Before this date the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles was also Governor for Curaçao. The first Governor of Curaçao is Frits Goedgedrag, who also was Governor of the Netherlands Antilles before that country's dissolution on 10 October 2010. He resigned at the end of 2012 due to health reasons, after which his responsibilities were taken over by acting Governor Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede (who had taken up her office on 10 October 2010 as well). Acting Governor Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede swore in her deputy as Second Acting Governor, N.C. Römer-Kenepa, on 24 June 2013