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Trump says every Alaska LNG permit is granted and Taiwan will buy 30% of the gas.

Trump Tells Alaska Every Pipeline Permit Is Granted and Says Taiwan Will Buy 30% of the Gas

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M.A. Rothman

By M.A. RothmanOctober 13, 2026 · 4 min read
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President Trump told a packed rally in Wasilla, Alaska, on October 13, 2026, that every federal permit needed for the long-stalled Alaska LNG pipeline has been granted, and that Taiwan has agreed to buy 30 percent of the gas it will carry. “You can start tonight,” Trump told the crowd. “Every single permit that you need has been granted.”

For a state that has talked about a North Slope gas line for decades, it was the kind of announcement Alaskans have waited a long time to hear. The project still has hurdles to clear before construction begins, but the federal government is no longer one of them.

“We got it done”

The rally, held to boost Sen. Dan Sullivan and other Republicans heading into the midterms, came two weeks after Sullivan joined Trump in the Oval Office to announce what Trump called “a historic federal project to finally build the 800-mile-long Alaska LNG pipeline.”

“That’s the largest energy infrastructure project in the history of Alaska, one of the largest in the history of the United States,” Trump said. “We got it done. It’s done.” He credited Sullivan, saying the senator “has been working to get this pipeline done for years, and he finally had the President that got it done.”

Trump also made the point that permitting is often where big projects go to die. “A lot of times you have a deal done, all you need is the permits,” he said. “The permits take you 25 years.”

Taiwan steps up

The biggest news of the night was a buyer. Trump said Taiwan had agreed to take “about 30% of the gas coming off the pipeline for the next 20 years,” according to Must Read Alaska. “It’s one of the biggest commitments in history for anything,” he said, adding, “It guarantees success.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who helped strike the arrangement, said Taiwan has pledged $4.4 billion toward the pipeline. He called it a “really good start” in remarks to the Washington Free Beacon. Reuters reported that the full terms were not immediately clear and that Taiwan’s economy ministry had no immediate comment. Taiwan’s state-owned energy company, CPC Corp., signed an earlier agreement with the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. in 2025, and in February 2026, Taiwan said it would ramp up purchases of American natural gas to about a third of its imports.

Trump also pointed to Asian investment more broadly. Last month, according to the Free Beacon, he announced that South Korea had agreed to invest more than $50 billion in the project, but Seoul has said that commitment is not set in stone, Reuters reported.

Taiwan’s interest is no accident. An island democracy that depends on imported fuel, under constant pressure from Communist China, has every reason to want long-term gas contracts with the United States rather than with suppliers who could be cut off in a crisis. Every cargo it buys from Alaska is one it doesn’t have to buy from someone less reliable.

Where the project stands

Trump’s permit claim matches the record. Alaska LNG first received federal approval in 2020, and the project’s developer reactivated its coverage under the federal FAST-41 permitting program in February 2025 to update biological opinions and renew permits. On December 10, 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration renewed the last outstanding permit, completing federal permitting, according to Oil & Gas Journal.

The project itself is enormous. The 807-mile pipeline would carry North Slope gas to an export terminal in Southcentral Alaska capable of shipping 20 million metric tons of LNG a year. The developer, Glenfarne Group, estimates the full project will cost between $44.5 billion and $54.5 billion, with the pipeline alone running $13.2 billion to $16.9 billion. The state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. holds a 25 percent stake and projects more than 11,000 construction jobs.

“Start tonight” is a rallying cry, not a construction schedule. Glenfarne has said it will not build until buyers commit to 80 percent of the export capacity, and as of September the project was about 3 million tons a year short of that goal, according to the Free Beacon. Preliminary agreements cover about 13 million tons a year, Reuters reported, and those still have to become binding contracts. A Taiwanese purchase on the scale Trump described could close the gap. The developers are aiming for a final investment decision on the pipeline by the end of 2026.

The Democratic threat

Trump warned that the win could be reversed. “If a Democrat gets in, all of these things are going to be terminated,” he said. “They did it before.” Sullivan described the opposition’s approach as “the Democrats’ forever war against Alaska.”

Alaskans have watched federal energy policy swing from one administration to the next. Projects measured in decades need stable rules, and a pipeline that has finally cleared Washington would be an easy target for an administration hostile to fossil fuels.

The rally also featured a moment of political theater: Trump signed pardons onstage for two co-owners of an Anchorage vehicle repair shop who, according to Newsweek, had pleaded guilty in 2022 to Clean Air Act violations involving diesel emissions equipment. “They want to put them in jail for 10 years because they fixed an engine,” he said.

For a state that has watched gas line plans come and go for decades, the combination of finished federal permits and a major Asian buyer is real momentum. The remaining question is whether the contracts and financing close before the politics change again.

The federal permits are done and Taiwan is lining up to buy the gas, so the last thing Alaska needs is to hand Washington back to the people Trump warns would tear it all up.

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