The US state of Alaska is facing depletion of natural gas reserves in Cook Inlet, which could deprive Anchorage of electricity, reported the newspaper The New York Times (NYT) on August 30.
Alaska has previously sent tankers of fuel abroad due to excess resources, and now officials expect that in the coming years there may be a problem with providing electricity to Anchorage, the largest city in the state. It is noted that reserves of natural gas produced in Cook Inlet have decreased, and many drilling companies have closed.
As the newspaper writes, the problem of dwindling resources has been known for more than 15 years, but there is still no plan to solve it. For a country whose economy is built on oil and gas, this is a particularly important issue.
Local utilities predict that they will most likely have to buy gas abroad some time from around 2028, which could lead to an increase in electricity and heating prices by 10-40%.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced that American partners, including South Korea and Japan, intend to invest trillions of dollars in building a gas pipeline in the state of Alaska to supply gas to Asia, but so far no Asian company has invested in the project's equity.
Source: tass.ru