AIDEA expanding LNG pad permit

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is expanding a construction permit to accommodate a larger liquefied natural gas facility on the North Slope.

Earlier this year, the public corporation acquired a site belonging to Spectrum Alaska for the purposes of constructing an LNG plant to serve Interior markets. AIDEA had received a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to build a larger plant at a different site and is now asking the Corps to expand its permit to accommodate the larger plant at the new site. The expansion would add some 2,000 cubic yards of fill to the initial permit.

The Corps is taking comments on the changes through July 25.

- Eric Lidji