April 13, 2012

For Alaska China Is the Hub of Hope

Steve LeVine, Foreign Policy


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What do you do if you have the natural gas equivalent of 6 billion barrels of oil, and no way to get it to a market? And what if you are uncertain that there will ever be a profitable market for this stranded treasure, at least in the coming couple of decades? . .

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