Hidden financing for Alaska natural gas project emerges in US talks with Kremlin

Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

At first blush, the proposed venture looks like it would further the Trump administration’s goal of global “energy dominance,” according to the report by The New York Times.

An American energy company intends to buy Russian technology and use it to access a massive supply of natural gas in Alaska, liquefy it and export it to allies abroad. The Kremlin and the White House were interested in the idea.

But it turns out that the company was not an all-American affair. The multibillion-dollar project has received secret funding from the same powerful Russian company that was to provide the technology, according to the energy executive who until last month led the U.S. firm and two others involved in company negotiations…(Read full story)