Alaska House Appears Likely to Pass 85% Tax Cut for Proposed Gas Pipeline

Gasline tax bill heads for House vote as developer pledges to prioritize Alaska labor

From left, Alaska Petroleum Joint Crafts Council President Joey Merrick, Fairbanks Building and Construction Trades Council President Lake Williams, 8 Star Alaska LLC Co-President Rex Canon and Building and Construction Trades Council of Southcentral Alaska President Bronson Frye pose with signed copies of an agreement to maximize the use of in-state labor on a gas pipeline project at an event in Chugiak on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Three weeks i…

Alaska LNG tax break advances to House floor

The Alaska House Finance Committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to push a major tax break bill for the Alaska LNG megaproject to a floor vote. The House will convene at 10:30 a.m. this morning (Friday).

Alaska House appears likely to pass 85% tax cut for proposed gas pipeline

From left to right, Reps. Neal Foster, D-Nome; Calvin Schrage, I-Anchorage; and Jamie Allard, R-Eagle River; talk with Rep. Frank Tomaszewski, R-Fairbanks (facing away from camera) on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, after the conclusion of that day's House Finance Committee meeting in Juneau. (James Brooks photo/Alaska Beacon)The Alaska House of Representatives is planning to vote as soon as Friday morning on a proposal to cut state taxes in order to enc…

Trans-Alaska pipeline paid taxes. So can LNG

I have heard talk of a North Slope gas pipeline since my childhood. Growing up in Fairbanks around adults who built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, I saw how it gave them financial security, so I planned on joining Laborers’ Local…

AKLNG bill advances without the option for local governments to cut their own deals - The Alaska Current

With a little more than a week remaining in Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s special session, the gasline subsidy bill is nearing a vote in the House — without one of the big-ticket items advocated for by allies of the North Slope Borough. The House Finance Committee wrapped up its work on a bill to significantly cut taxes for the 800-mile pipeline project on Wednesday. And in doing so, the North Slope Borough and the Kenai Peninsula Borough — fu…