More than a thousand people from around the world gathered in Anchorage this week for the fourth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference. Across three days of panels and talks, the spectre of the long-sought Alaska liquefied natural gas megaproject loomed large. Project optimism was unmired by some of its outstanding question marks.
Sitting in grey armchairs, with a large image of a moose behind them, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Glenfarne CEO Brendan Duval came together on the last day of the conference to reflect and ruminate on the, literal, pipe dream.
“I’m going to ask the question that I probably shouldn’t ask – confidence level,” Dunleavy said to Duval, “Are we gonna have a pipeline here in a few years?”
“Well, I see every reason why we will, and I’ve come here and I’ve put my name on it, and when I put my name on something, I’m stuck,” Duval responded. “I’ve got to get it done, and the fundamentals allowed me to do that with good decision making, not rolling a die. So the answer is yes.”…