Alaska's $44 billion bet on natural gas

Alaska's $44 billion bet on natural gas

An arctic wind cut across Prudhoe Bay, sending spindrifts swirling as Energy Secretary Chris Wright stepped onto a podium hastily erected among oil wells and pump stations. The gray summer sunlight scattered over ice-rimmed ponds, shadows gathering in the hollows of low heaves and stretching over the tundra. But the visitors gathered around him were less interested in the scenery than what lay beneath it. Wearing a hard hat perched above a pair …

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas - The Alaska Current

No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.