...our gas supply in 2000; today it represents 25 percent. In the early 2000s, plans were under way to build liquefied natural gas terminals to import natural gas from the Middle East. Today we are retrofitting our ports to allow us to export it...

...Senate. However, time is of the utmost importance since Alaska's proposed pipeline faces competition from liquefied natural gas terminals being built around the world, he said. Obstacles include the lengthy permitting process a pipeline faces...

...mean shipping gas to the Midwest markets through Canada or tapping into the energy industry's emergence of liquefied natural gas terminals. "This needs to be done as expeditiously as possible for two reasons," Rutherford said. "It's in the...

...one proposal does include an all-Alaska option. Such a proposal requires federal certification for a new liquefied natural gas terminal, and an export license. But Walker believes all the pieces are in place to have a line built in the state...

...customer for the natural gas. Sempra Energy of San Diego is working with the Mexican government to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal in Baja California. The firm is talking to Alaska as a possible supplier and would require a billion cubic...