Jesse Kiehl
27:13 - 27:55
“if we're talking about building the whole thing to have a viable project, why wouldn't the cost of a Fairbanks spur be spread across all purchasers of gas, including foreign LNG buyers?”
- Speaker
- Jesse Kiehl
- Timestamp
- 27:13 – 27:55
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
From the transcript
I guess the more we look at these numbers, the more convinced I am that affordable gas only comes, as you said, with the full export project. And I have yet to see a set of numbers that could even plausibly deliver $16 in-state gas without the export project. So if we're talking about the— if we're talking about building the whole thing to have a viable project, why wouldn't the cost of a Fairbanks spur be spread across all purchasers of gas, including foreign LNG buyers?
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