Alaska LNG delayed a year; Chinese pay a visit
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has told the state’s Alaska Gasoline Development Corp. that it will not begin the Alaska LNG Project’s Environmental Impact Statement until early 2019. Under the schedule a FERC Record of Decision would issue in early 2020, a year later than that schedule hoped for by Gov. Bill Walker and AGDC. How the delay will affect negotiations now underway with a Chinese group (the potential LNG customers and financiers) is unknown. One good sign is that…