27-10-2015 19:04 via alaskapublic.org

The Alaska LNG project explained

Lawmakers have one hot and messy item on their hands right now: the Alaska LNG project. It’s a giant pipeline the state hopes to build, along with three or four other industry partners, to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market.
Let’s look at some of the details. First off, this is a big and expensive endeavor — $45 to 65 billion bucks. For comparison, that’s roughly the GDP of Bulgaria.
And that figure accounts for three big things: A gas treatment plant, the
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