Legislature’s optimism for gasline wanes, project lags behind schedule

Gov. Bill Walker spent Thanksgiving weekend in Japan, trying to sell Alaska’s liquefied natural gas project (AKLNG). But optimism is fading in the Alaska Legislature for AKLNG, and plans have fallen behind schedule.
The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) hoped to have the project completely turned over to the state last month after all three oil company partners — BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil — pulled out of the project, but that hasn’t happened. Now,