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Alaskans want movement on a natural gas pipeline.

That's the conclusion of a group pushing an in-state pipeline focusing on local consumption.

And it's the way a prominent pollster sees it, too.

Pollster Dave Dittman says the seemingly endless talk about Alaska's energy options, including a natural gas pipeline, has exasperated the public.

"It's 'quit talking about all of our options, all of the things we could do, all of the things we might do' -- whether it's hydro or the big line, the little line, the spur line. ‘Do something.’ This is coming up soon -- the crisis that people foresee."

Dittman says that impatience bodes well for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation.

That public entity is recommending that the state finance a $7.5 billion pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral to provide gas for the Railbelt by 2019.

Dan Fauske, the corporation president, told the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce that it's a trans-generational project.

"I think we're making a 50- to 100-year decision with a project like this, or something similar. We have to stop thinking in two-year or four-year increments. You're thinking about -- this is a project that's going to be around long after everybody in this room is long gone. And I don't mean to be morbid."

Fauske says that a confidential meeting with potential industrial users of the gas was a big success.

"We were sitting around that morning, I remember going 'we might have to take these bagels down to bean's cafe; I don't know if anybody's going to come.' we ended up having heavy turnout. And when you consider that we've gone from not sure what the interest was to non-binding expressions of interest that have maxed out the capacity on the line, I think you as Alaskans should be pleased. That's a significant piece of information."

But Bill Walker of the Alaska Gasline Port Authority says a small pipeline without an export component would be an enormous missed opportunity.

"We have billions of dollars we could be bringing in, but when somebody else fills that market, we're not going to. It's something that we subsidize and pay for, or something that brings money into all of Alaska."

Dittman says polling he did this spring shows that the public views the issues differently.

"Export is not that big of a deal. The money for the state Legislature, or money for government, or money even for the permanent fund isn't nearly as important, at least then -- and I still think it is now -- as it is to have the jobs that come from it and have local supplies."

If that's the case, the project known as the Alaska Stand-Alone Pipeline could have momentum.