Globe and Mail, by OSAMU TSUKIMORI.  Alaska could pay $70-million (U.S.) to $100-million for TransCanada’s 25 per cent stake in the midstream and upstream sectors of the proposed Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Governor Bill Walker said on Thursday.

Walker has recommended to legislators that the U.S. state should buy the stake, adding to a similar stake in a planned liquefaction plant and giving it a quarter share of the giant 20 million tonnes per annum export project.  More….