“In sum: an immense disaster, one that’s wrought deep trauma on Western Alaska’s Indigenous residents and that’s raising existential questions about the future of their low-lying communities amid a changing climate and a tightening state budget.”

“The region sits on a broad, dead-flat plain next to the Bering Sea, and weather experts say they expect warming ocean temperatures to fuel more storms like the typhoon — which came just three years after another fall storm caused widespread damage.”——-Nat Herz, Northern Journal.

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy told the Resource Development Council Thursday that he expects a big announcement to move forward on the Alaska LNG pipeline in two months, with construction starting next year. He would be shocked if the project stalls, he said.

This rosy view appears to be founded on the idea that Donald Trump will succeed in forcing Japan, South Korea and other Asian nations to pay for the pipeline, whether they like it or not. Dunleavy says that the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and Glenfarne are telling him that there are no glitches that will derail the proposal.

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The governor and his employees are taking the position that Alaskans have no right to know what exactly happened to the $50 million and what the contract says.

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The so-called “implementation strategy” for the arbitrary Dunleavy plan to eliminate 15 percent of regulations by the end of 2026 mentions requirements about continuing education for doctors as an example of the discretionary rules that should be reviewed for possible elimination.

Dunleavy and Dunleavy Chief of Staff Tyson Gallagher will object to that statement, claiming that they have not proposed cutting continuing education requirements for doctors.

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While Dunleavy Chief of Staff Tyson Gallagher and Dunleavy PR man Jeff Turner declined to release anything about how the 15 percent cut is supposed to work, I have obtained two important documents from other sources that are revealing, including the Gallagher “Regulatory Reduction Guide.”

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We’re not getting the full story on the decision by the Dunleavy administration and former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum to put $50 million of short-term money into a long-term investment right before Crum quit to run for governor.

The Anchorage Daily News has advanced the coverage with this solid piece by Iris Samuels, but the governor and his employees are not being straightforward with the Legislature or the public.

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The gas emitted by Alaska politicians about the Alaska LNG project does not reflect the extreme degree of uncertainty that still plagues the enterprise.

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Former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum claims to be amused that legislators are demanding details on the $50 million long-term investment he made with short-term public money right before he quit his state job to run for governor.

The amusement extends to the governor’s alleged investigation of Crum’s actions, which Crum says is a Dunleavy fence-mending operation with legislators because the governor knew all about what Crum had done.

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Two months have passed since Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced plans to eliminate 15 percent of burdensome state regulations by the time his regime ends in late 2026.

No one has bothered to define burdensome.

Dunleavy signed Administrative Order 360 on August 4, triggering an unbudgeted bureaucratic exercise that will guarantee the Dunleavy administration will have time to do nothing of substance in the next 13 months.

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Forbes Magazine noted that the Trump administration mentioned nothing about how one of Trump’s most loyal allies would gain from the federal subsidy of Trilogy.

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