There is plenty of natural gas. They are lying and creating false scarcity to drive the price up in Alaska, meanwhile exporting our natural gas through Conoco Phillips in Kenai to Asia who is paying double the price.

see recent news story: In-state gasline planners revise proposal

Carrying natural gas liquids such as ethane, propane and butane was previously considered desirable because they could be sold at a premium and used to lower the price of gas to Alaskans, said Frank Richards, the pipeline engineering manager for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp.

“Now we see that the world is awash in natural gas liquids,” he said in a presentation to a legislative committee Dec. 20.

More shale gas has meant a glut of NGLs in the U.S. market, with prices falling by 60 percent.

Eliminating them from an in-state pipeline would allow the project to be built with industry-standard 36-inch pipe rather than 25-inch pipe

NGLs in the line would have required Fairbanks to have facilities to take them out, depressurize gas for local use and re-inject the liquids. Another extraction plant would have been needed at the end of the 737-mile line. “Those are expensive facilities,” Richards said.

The projected cost remains roughly the same — $7.7 billion