Behind every stalled project is more than a balance sheet—there are jobs not created, revenues not collected, and communities left with fewer opportunities.
Dunleavy to propose lower property tax to support LNG megaproject
Alex DeMarban, Anchorage Daily News, December 16, 2025
Gov. Mike Dunleavy plans to introduce a bill that would establish a low property tax for the giant Alaska LNG project, a move that would help support its development.
The bill, to be introduced at the start of the session, proposes a rate of 2 mills on the assessed value of the project, Dunleavy said in an interview Friday. That’s one-tenth of the 20 mills, or 2%, that the state levies on oil and gas infrastructure, a portion or all of which can go to local governments with such infrastructure, depending on their rates.
The governor said his bill would cover the length of the project’s lifetime, which has been estimated at 30 yearsor more.
This is basically the offshore wind protection racket in action…
| Attempt to tie Trump’s hands could doom permitting overhaul – Proponents for a comprehensive permitting reform bill in congress are finding out the hard way why getting this done eluded Joe Manchin in a Democrat-dominated congress in 2022 and is likely to elude Republicans in the current GOP majority congress. The reason being that so many members of both the House and Senate in both parties cannot resist putting their parochial political interests above doing what is best for the country. The tie-up on getting the current reform vehicle – called the SPEED Act – passed into law has to do with a provision inserted which would limit the ability of federal agencies to revoke already issued permits. This is basically the offshore wind protection racket in action, a response to the Trump Interior Department’s having revoked or suspended permits for several offshore wind projects who received their initial permits with highly suspicious speed and lack of proper oversight. Key Excerpt: In a letter to Westerman this month, a group of 30 House Democrats made clear that retaining “permit certainty” provisions is a prerequisite for their vote. The question is whether a debate of this issue, even if amendments to kill it aren’t adopted, will be enough to mollify enough Freedom Caucus members for the bill to pass — or if SPEED will be the latest permitting effort to crash and burn. The View from The Senate Even if the bill does pass in the House, it faces a much harder road ahead in the Senate. It’s unlikely that a sufficient number of Democrats would vote in favor to meet the Senate’s 60-vote majority threshold, without significantly scaling back the limits on environmental review that make the bill palatable to Republicans. “We are facing an affordable energy crisis right now, and the path out requires us to build big things in America. But the SPEED Act won’t get us there,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., told Semafor. “This legislation from the House is a sweeping overhaul… that rushes environmental reviews, sidelines community input, and paradoxically invites more litigation and delay — all while failing to meaningfully address skyrocketing energy costs and the need to build out and modernize our electrical grid.” From David Blackmon’s 5 Big Energy Stories, December 17, 2025 (subscription required) |