

Joel Riddle, who resigned as chief executive of Polar LNG in September, says the Alaska natural gas startup received secret funding from Russian energy giant Novatek, a company partly under U.S. sanctions.

Joel Riddle, who resigned as chief executive of Polar LNG in September, says the Alaska natural gas startup received secret funding from Russian energy giant Novatek, a company partly under U.S. sanctions.
Last time a sanctioned Russian gas name turned up in a US deal, we got a press release, a hearing, and nothing else. Hard to say this one’s different, except the cast is bigger now.