These suggestions range from mandatory alcohol awareness training as a prerequisite for obtaining a driver's license to offering screening and mandatory alcohol education and assessments for DUI incarcerations. Another recommendation involves the creation and funding of a DUI Court. This concept provides a legal environment that can specifically focus on the DUI concerns ranging from enforcement, prosecution, education and screening. Commercialization of Alaska's North Slope natural gas will be a hot topic in 2001. Recently, we have seen a fundamental shift in the supply and demand for natural gas delivered to the Lower 48, the world's largest gas market.
Experts forecast an increasing demand for gas in the United States.
The demand for arctic gas and the technology to bring this gas to market exists today. Alaska legislators and business leaders already held meetings with our counterparts in Canada to initiate an international dialogue on a Trans-North American gas pipeline system. Formalizing development strategies with our Canadian counterparts on matters such as cooperative permitting agreements is the next logical step in this process. There are currently a variety of gas pipeline routes under consideration. We expect the companies to request financial concessions.