(The Center Square) – Federal regulators have issued all necessary permits for the Alaska LNG project, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council said, with state-level authorizations in Anchorage now the final step before construction can begin.
“I am thrilled to see the Alaska LNG project finish federal permitting actions ahead of schedule,” said Emily Domenech, executive director of the Permitting Council, an independent agency established by Congress in 2015 that coordinates and streamlines federal environmental reviews and authorization processes for large, complex infrastructure projects.
Alaska LNG, which project developers aim to build in two phases over six years, would consist of an 807-mile-long pipeline from the North Slope to the Kenai Peninsula in the south-central part of the state, an LNG export facility that would be built nearby, and a natural gas treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay, with a total capital investment estimated at more than $40 billion…