Momentum builds for Alaska LNG
Asian and European interest gathers pace as Trump throws his weight behind frontier state
Asian and European interest in the long-stalled Alaska LNG project has started to build amid US President Donald Trump’s push to expand resource extraction in the frontier state, as dozens of high-level foreign officials gathered there in early June to demonstrate their intent and learn more about a $44b venture that has been decades in the making. A recent flurry of announcements from Alaska LNG’s developers and interested parties has underscored the growing momentum behind the project under Trump’s presidency. Glenfarne, the majority owner and lead developer, announced in early June that more than 50 companies from the US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India and the EU had formally expressed
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