Moving Alaska’s natural gas brings two competing plans

(The Oklahoman – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — – Alaska has natural gas, and the rest of the U.S. needs it.

But getting it from there to here is tricky — a puzzle grappled with for decades that state and federal leaders continue trying to solve today.

Now, two competing plans propose to build a pipeline to move natural gas from its Arctic fields to markets in the lower 48 states. The issue has the attention of oil and gas producing states nationwide.

… Patrick Galvin, commissioner of revenue for the state of Alaska, said state officials are wanting to get the gas to market because its oil production is declining, and with it, revenues for the state’s government.

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