Construction of a long-awaited, 807-mile natural gas pipeline could be underway as soon as next year, Alaska’s Republican governor said Monday.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy said a final investment decision on the pipeline segment of the Alaska LNG project could happen this fall, and “quite possibly you would have potential construction here in a year, year and a half.”
Gas could be flowing through the pipeline as soon as 2028 or 2029 — and exports of liquefied natural gas could leave a proposed terminal two years after that, the governor said at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank. Dunleavy said developing the Alaska LNG project in phases is helping to alleviate concerns about the proposal’s large size.
“Once that pipe is in place and gas is flowing, you de-risk the whole project,” he said, adding that the goal is to see gas flowing under the Trump administration.
