"Our investments track with the needs of our system," says the ENSTAR spokesperson (Perhaps she forgot about mentioning that their profits track with what they can get away  which included (thanks JetRx) our brief excursion  to the Henry Hub market that lasted exactly until they could charge more in a regional market).  So now we see  yet another consumer rate increase following how many hundreds of millions in public funds for the "Cook Inlet Renaissance"?   And we saw practically no state revenues from the oil production this inducement generated. 
 This is another scam that our incumbent  legislators hold up as a shining example of their vaunted Public Private Partnership. We might have been better off to import LNG or at least approach this endeavor as a public utility effort. Our economy is contracting which will result in less demand so naturally ENSTAR petitions to raise rates.  How nice to have control of a regulated monopoly in Alaska when you can influence the regulators.