Idea to convert Slope gas into electricity gains listeners - An idea studied years ago by an oil company for producing vast stores of North Slope natural gas without building a giant pipeline has emerged again, this time before state legislators trying to find relief for residents crushed by heating and electricity costs.

Burning natural gas to make electricity to use for heating is a waste of natural gas.  If the goal is to provide Alaskan residents of villages with power and heat, I believe pipelines are a better idea.  That way the villages can have their own local combined heat and power systems and make much more efficient use of the fuel meaning less heat rejected to the Arctic environment.