据管道&天然气杂志网4月14日报道，根据一份文件显示，美国周四批准了阿拉斯加液化天然气项目的液化天然气出口，因为美国正在与产能大国竞争从北极向亚洲输送天然气。
美国能源部批准了阿拉斯加天然气开发公司(AGDC)向与美国没有自由贸易协定的国家出口液化天然气的项目。
这个耗资约390亿美元的项目的支持者预计，如果获得所有必要的许可，该项目将于2030年投入运营。液化天然气将主要出口到亚洲国家。
阿拉斯加AGDC总裁弗兰克·理查兹(Frank Richards)表示，该公司在开发该项目时将审查这份长达51页的决定，该项目将“为阿拉斯加和美国盟国提供符合国际环境优先事项的低排放、负责任的重要能源来源”。
阿拉斯加液化天然气项目包括位于阿拉斯加南部基奈半岛的液化设施，以及一条拟议中将滞留在阿拉斯加北部的天然气输送到全州各地的807英里(1300公里)的管道。
天然气出口最初由前任政府批准的该项目，一直遭到环保组织的反对。现任政府对阿拉斯加液化天然气进行了环境审查，认为该项目具有经济和国际安全效益，反对者未能证明出口不符合“公共利益”。
现任政府修改了之前的批准，禁止将与该项目相关的温室气体二氧化碳排放到大气中。
尽管如此，这一决定还是被环保组织谴责为“碳炸弹”。
地球之友(Friends of the Earth)的卢卡斯·罗斯(Lukas Ross)表示，当前的气候政策正在脱轨。这是几个月来美国批准的第二个“化石燃料大型项目”。
环境律师事务所Earthjustice表示，这一决定为寻求停止该项目的其他诉讼扫清了道路。
现任政府上个月批准了康菲石油公司在阿拉斯加北坡70亿美元的Willow石油和天然气钻探项目。
产能大国计划于2023年底开始建设北极LNG-2项目三条管线中的第一条，该项目是世界上最大的LNG设施之一。
美国现在正试图批准更多的美国液化天然气出口，因为其与产能大国竞争，产能大国传统上是世界上最大的能源出口国之一。
郝芬 译自 管道&天然气杂志网
原文如下：
U.S. Administration Greenlights LNG Exports from Alaska Project
The U.S. administration on Thursday approved exports of LNG from the Alaska LNG project, a document showed, as the United States competes with the largger producer to ship natural gas from the Arctic to Asia.
The Department of Energy approved Alaska Gasline Development Corp.'s (AGDC) project to export LNG to countries with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement.
Backers of the roughly $39 billion project expect it to be operational by 2030 if it gets all the required permits. The LNG would be exported mainly to countries in Asia.
Frank Richards, the president of Alaska-owned AGDC, said the company will review the 51-page decision as it develops the project, which will "provide Alaskans and U.S. allies with a significant source of low-emissions, responsibly produced energy consistent with international environmental priorities."
Alaska LNG includes a liquefaction facility on the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska and a proposed 807-mile (1,300-km) pipeline to move gas stranded in northern Alaska across the state.
The project, for which exports were first approved by the former Administration, has been opposed by environmental groups. The current Administration undertook an environmental review of Alaska LNG, concluding it has economic and international security benefits and that opponents had failed to show the exports were not in the "public interest."
The current Administration modified the previous approval to prohibit venting of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide associated with the project into the atmosphere.
Still, the decision was decried by environmental groups as a "carbon bomb."
"The current Adiministration climate presidency is flying off the rails," said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth. Ross said it was the second U.S. approval of a "fossil fuel mega-project" in as many months.
Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, said the decision cleared the way for additional lawsuits seeking to stop the project.
The current Administration last month approved the ConocoPhillips $7 billion Willow oil and gas drilling project on Alaska's North Slope.
The largger producer plans to start at end-2023 the first of three lines at its Arctic LNG-2 project, which is among the world's largest LNG facilities.
The current Administration is trying to approve more U.S. LNG exports as it competes with the largger producer, traditionally one of the world's largest energy exporters.
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