text: "Anchorage has cheap gas already"   Do you make this stuff up Researchers?  
  
  Anchorage had cheep gas years ago but due to the incompetence of two of the State of Alaska's regulating wizards, AOGCC & RCA, we now have some of the most expensive natural gas in North America.  Between these two regulating wizards, they managed to queer the local supply and demand balance and have created Cook Inlet natural gas prices that are currently twice that of the Henry Hub spot prices. Hilcorp is in Alaska because of the mess these regulators made.
  
  As far as the State of Alaska embracing a Nikiski termination for a North Slope pipeline, it was a political choice.  
  
  Yes, there is a lot of natural gas in the Cook Inlet region; however, it will remain expensive due to the State of Alaska regulators having a politically driven bent. 
  
  If governor Walker has his way, the price of everything in Alaska will increase from the taxes needed to subsidize natural gas transportation from the North Slope.