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At an Oval Office ceremony where he promoted Alaska’s embattled Republican U.S. senator, Trump made bold statements that do not match the Korean government’s public stances.

This is nothing but a campaign stunt aimed at duping the voters in Alaska. It’s the latest version of “Mexico will pay for the wall.”

At Climate Week NYC, Alaska leaders shared stories about the relationships, local knowledge and community voices that make climate action possible.

The promised household savings begin only after pipeline demand reaches a threshold that current projections cannot meet.

The members of the Golden Valley Electric Association deserve to hear more points of view about the utility’s costly proposal to buy a large generator similar to a jet engine on a 747.

The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon an offshore wind project and redirect investment into fossil fuels stands to deliver a windfall to one of President Donald Trump’s major donors.

How a megaproject went from needing nothing to suddenly needing everything.

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As the Golden Days street festival drew near its end Saturday, some Fairbanks organizations floated their opposition to the proposed Alaska LNG project — literally.

If Alaska LNG is as transformative as its backers say, it can carry a fair tax and survive an honest accounting of who gets paid.

On November 19, 2025, the president of Glenfarne told legislators that the company was so optimistic about the Alaska LNG project that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of its own money t...

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Alaskans should not mistake a pressure campaign for evidence that the long-promised gas line is finally financeable.

The Alaska LNG project could be a financial black hole for Alaska, at a time when the state is struggling to keep schools open and roads maintained.

A secret agreement provides the most detailed insight yet into one of the world’s largest prospective natural gas projects.

Multi-billion-dollar cost overruns for LNG infrastructure shift financial returns of these projects, creating risks for investors, and taxpayers.

The company’s last-minute cost adjustments only raise more questions.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Glenfarne, the leaders of the Alaska Gas Development Corporation and other Republican politicians claimed a year ago that the Alaska LNG project needed no state property tax cut. ...

Gas and heating fuel prices in rural Alaska were already high. An impending spike from the Iran war could "wipe out" communities.

Dozens of Alaskans were split between supporting and opposing the proposed Alaska LNG pipeline during nearly three hours of public testimony to the House Resources Committee on Saturday.

The costs could fall between $23 million and $173 million, depending on new housing construction, according to a report prepared for the Anchorage Community Development Authority.

Podcast Episode · With All Due Respect? · May 25 · 8m

With GVEA’s recently announced increased fuel costs, Fairbanks will be paying close to 40 cents per kilowatt hour starting June 1. Electricity has seldom been cheap in Interior Alaska, but

Effective June 1, the power bill for the average Golden Valley Electric Association member will jump nearly $50 due to constant fuel use during the winter.

Because gas prices are expected to rise in coming years amid a growing shortage in Cook Inlet, the solar project is poised to become cheaper than power generated by imported natural gas.

State lawmakers are considering a tax break, proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, to encourage investors, but they're struggling to finalize it.

Governor Mike Dunleavy holds hostage a pension reform bill to force lawmakers to pass his pipeline bill...and the legislature refuses to pay the ransom.

Lawmakers have expressed concerns about a lack of information on the Alaska LNG project’s finances. Gov. Dunleavy said they’ll have 30 days to study it further.

Legislators shouldn’t reward corporate secrecy and speculative megaprojects with public subsidies.

The Department of Revenue has presented many economic models for other tax rates brought forward by legislators. But all this information only obscures the fact that what's most essential is still mis...

State also ranks 50th for wind generation growth

The negotiations have subsumed other priorities in recent days, scrambling caucus alliances and drawing lawmakers into closed-door meetings.

The governor’s bill (SB 227) previously included legislation to, among other things, create a state sales tax and remove corporate income taxes entirely. These provisions have been removed from the bi...

Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Alaska’s economy has long been tied to resource development, but that does not mean every place should be opened to extraction. At the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, we believe responsible

In the 22nd hearing it has held on the Dunleavy plan to cut taxes on the proposed gas pipeline by 90 percent, the Senate Resources Committee tried on May 1 to fathom the mysteries of the gravel givea...

It's Wednesday. A week remains in session. In this edition: With the final sprint to the finish line underway, the Alaska Legislature has a ton on its plate, and that's before we get to the governor'...

The spike in world oil prices created by Donald Trump’s war with Iran is bringing grief to Fairbanks and Anchorage. In rural Alaska, however, the situation is a great deal worse. For many parts of rur...

Podcast Episode · With All Due Respect? · April 3 · 27m

S&P Global came away from a major international energy conference in Texas with news that doesn’t bode well for the Alaska project, though it didn’t even mention Alaska in its overview of the worl...

News-Miner opinion: Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made a habit of asking Alaskans to accept less while promising, with unwavering confidence, that something greater lies just over the horizon. His latest

According to my rough math, if this is a $50 billion project, instead of a property tax of about $1 billion per year, Dunleavy is proposing an alternative tax of about $76 million per year, a reductio...

Legislators dealing with the pipeline say they don’t have answers to basic questions, like how much the pipeline will cost and whether the gas it carries will be affordable to Alaskans.