Will this ever end?  Bill Walker is not alone.  Our Legislature and Governors Murkowski, Palin, Parnell and now Walker all have promulgated this basic idea of a natural gas export project based on a "partnership" with private industry. These attempts have cost us well upwards of a billion dollars yet not a molecule of gas has been sold nor an inch of pipe laid  They have all failed and this one is about to join the others on that scrap pile of failure.  These failures demonstrate beyond doubt the absolute folly of the beloved "public-private partnership" approach to development of Alaska's resources.   The sovereign (State of Alaska) has a critical yet entirely different role to play and the  state's purpose and interests will never be aligned with those of private industry except for very brief periods of time.  The state needs to get out of the business of being in business for profit because a sovereign is not structured nor purposed to make a profit as is a private enterprise. .