"If you don't finish or get a FERC license COMPLETED, you've wasted all those millions you've spent," she said.
Senator Giessel, December 2016 
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2016/12/28/legislative-audit-to-investigate-money-transfers-at-state-led-gas-line-agency/

"There's this idea the state of Alaska could do this in a TAX-EXEMPT way," she said, but questioned how that would work with buyer investments and the gas line not being strictly a state project.
Senator Giessel, August 2016 
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2016/08/18/state-working-with-partners-will-soon-take-over-alaska-lng/