Trump pushes plan for Alaska gas exports

Energy deal: Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The personal involvement of the US president, a former real estate developer who prides himself on cutting deals, marks a major shift for the complex Alaska LNG project. — Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump touted his administration’s work on a proposed Alaska pipeline, underscoring his push to invigorate a long-stalled US$44bil project to transport natural gas across the state and export it overseas.

The administration is “working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea and other nations want to be our partner with investment of trillions of dollars each,” Trump said during his joint address to Congress.