Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance told the state House Finance Committee on Monday that the Alaska LNG megaproject could cost the municipality up to $173 million over nine years because of the city’s current tax structure, citing a new report.
The project’s 800-mile pipeline, which would move gas from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska, would not pass through Anchorage. As a result, the city would not receive direct property tax or gas-volume tax from the project, she said.
But thousands of workers associated with construction and related activity would be based in Anchorage, she said…