Who Is Going to Pay for Alaska LNG?

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A proposed Alaska LNG project has regained momentum as the Trump administration uses tariff pressure to encourage foreign partners to invest. South Korea is central to discussions over financing the costly development, amid efforts to preserve access to the US market.

Washington’s tariff pressure is giving Alaska LNG something its economics have struggled to secure: a potential investor. Discussed for decades, the costly and technically complex project has regained momentum under President Donald Trump, who is using tariff threats to press foreign partners into backing it. South Korea is now at the centre of that effort, as Seoul’s bid to protect access to the US market becomes a negotiation over financing one of America’s most expensive energy developments. The question is whether that pressure…