(See our 10-4-13 story), "…in answer to a question dealing with final terminus of the pipeline and siting for an LNG export plant, she said that "over twenty sites have been evaluated and prioritized but it is premature to announce the location of the site at this point."

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim 

Tim Bradner, 2001, Nikiski, Alaska Journal of Commerce, LNG, Photo by Dave HarbourBradner (NGP Photo of Bradner at Nikiski LNG Site, 2001).  North Slope producers and TransCanada Corp. have selected a site at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula as the proposed terminus for a 42-inch North Slope gas pipeline and a large liquefied natural gas project.  

Nikiski is also the location of a smaller liquefied natural gas plant owned by ConocoPhillips that suspended operations when its export license expired in 2012 because of lack of gas supplies from Cook Inlet fields.

North Slope producers ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips and TransCanada, a pipeline company, selected Nikiski as the preferred site after evaluating 20 possible locations, the companies announced in a press released issued Monday.

Bradenton Herald/AP.  The companies seeking to advance a multibillion dollar natural gas pipelineproject in Alaska have a leading contender for the terminal site where gas would be liquefied and shipped to Asia, signaling that a decades-old dream could become a reality even though major hurdles remain.

Although numerous sites were being studied, Nikiski and Valdez were considered the lead contenders for the LNG plant….

Calgary Herald, by Jason Feteke.  U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to issue a final decision in early 2014 on the Keystone XL pipeline, a project Prime Minister Stephen Harper once said is a “no-brainer” for the U.S.

Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore.  Many Westerners suspect that this environmental activism isn't only or even mostly about saving species and obscure subspecies. Instead, it is about restricting land use on hundreds of thousands of acres of private and state land. The concern is that if these species are listed as endangered, their habitat could be placed off limits for economic development.