| A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska's Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic A collage showing a diagram of the key parameters of the proposed terminal, a photo of a U.S. Navy exercise in the Beaufort Sea in 2022, and two vantage points on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Photos by Lance King/Getty Images, Justin Yarborough/U.S. Navy. To an outsider, the research boats bobbing in the frigid and stormy Beaufort Sea off Alaska would seem little cause for alarm. Oil and gas companies have regularly explored the area for decades. |