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
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Carolina is Kevin L. Bryant since January 25, 2017. Bryant became lieutenant governor after Governor Haley resigned, Lieutenant Governor McMaster became governor, and President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate Hugh Leatherman resigned. Bryant was elected as President Pro Tempore, which, according to the laws of succession, immediately made him lieutenant governor. Bryant did not campaign to remain lieutenant governor in the 2018 election, and he will be succeeded by Republican Pamela Evette on January 9, 2019. Beginning in 2018, the person elected to the office of lieutenant governor will no longer serve as the president of the Senate