Lynn.  Good grief.  Please, pick up a globe.  Then look at the proximity of Alaska to Japan, Korea, and China.  

Here's a clue.  You are closer to Tokyo in Fairbanks(3,519 miles) than you are in Honolulu (3,854 miles).  Wally Hickel would be rolling in his grave reading your comment.  

You are correct that the Alaska population is small.  That is WHY we need this big project- a project with economy of scale.  That economy of scale does what our small population can not support- it gets us world class infrastructure with proportionately lower costs.  Cheaper energy.

Pretending like the resource has no value because we are afraid of building some basic, proven infrastructure... good grief.