Coming months crucial for state's oil, gas industries
November 21, 2009
Anchorage Daily News
TIM BRADNER
Alaskans are apprehensive about getting a natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope.
They should be, but we also should remain hopeful.
Huge new deposits of shale gas are being discovered in the Lower 48 that could take our market. The outlook isn't much better for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, which is seen as an alternative to an all-land Alaska pipeline. The world is awash in LNG, with large new plants coming on line in Asia and the Middle East.
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