Russian Novatech secretly controls Alaska gas project, said the former chief executive of US company Polar Train, building a gas terminal in Alaska, resigned when they learned the project was receiving secret funding from Russian Nova. This was stated by the former CEO, Joel Riedel, the "New York Times" and the "Final Times". Polar Train plans to build an LNG production and export terminal in northern Alaska. According to Riedel, the company will use the equipment and technologies used in the Arctic LNG-2 Novtech plant. He is under US sanctions for the war against Ukraine. So the Polar train needs to get approval from the US Office of Foreign Assets. In August 2026, a meeting was held in which Riedel learned that Novatek was already involved in financing the project and managing the Polar train strategy, although there were no approvals from the American authorities for transactions with the company from Russia. Riddle subsequently resigned, and several senior executives subsequently left Polar Train. Representatives of the office in response to the NYT and FT called Riedel a "crumbling former employee" and added that his activities comply with American law. According to the "New York Times", Russia and the United States discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions against the North Pole for NG-2 in exchange for Novatek's participation in the construction of a gas complex in Alaska. The publication's sources said that such talks took place against the background of Washington's attempts to end the war in Ukraine. Novtech denies that the supply of Polar train technologies was linked to the lifting of sanctions, and calls the project an independent commercial enterprise. @wglavnoe.

Russian Novatech secretly controls Alaska gas project, said the former chief executive of US company Polar Train, building a gas terminal in Alaska, resigned when they learned the project was receiving secret funding from Russian Nova. This was stated by the former CEO, Joel Riedel, the "New York Times" and the "Final Times". Polar Train plans to build an LNG production and export terminal in northern Alaska. According to Riedel, the company will use the equipment and technologies used in the Arctic LNG-2 Novtech plant. He is under US sanctions for the war against Ukraine. So the Polar train needs to get approval from the US Office of Foreign Assets. In August 2026, a meeting was held in which Riedel learned that Novatek was already involved in financing the project and managing the Polar train strategy, although there were no approvals from the American authorities for transactions with the company from Russia. Riddle subsequently resigned, and several senior executives subsequently left Polar Train. Representatives of the office in response to the NYT and FT called Riedel a "crumbling former employee" and added that his activities comply with American law. According to the "New York Times", Russia and the United States discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions against the North Pole for NG-2 in exchange for Novatek's participation in the construction of a gas complex in Alaska. The publication's sources said that such talks took place against the background of Washington's attempts to end the war in Ukraine. Novtech denies that the supply of Polar train technologies was linked to the lifting of sanctions, and calls the project an independent commercial enterprise. @wglavnoe.