
Governor · State of Alaska
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Mike Dunleavy is the 12th Governor of Alaska, first elected in 2018, and is focused on restoring trust in government and promoting new business and investment in the state. He is an American politician and educator who has served as governor since 2018.
“Alaska has long recognized a significant gap in care for individuals whose needs cannot be safely met at home or through existing community-based services, but who do not require hospitalization”
“While the state realized additional revenue, those same price pressures placed a real burden on school districts, particularly in rural Alaska. This budget makes targeted, responsible use of a temporary revenue increase to stabilize school facilities and address energy costs.”
“Susan Sullivan served Alaska during a formative time in our state's history, contributing to important work that helped shape our institutions for future generations. Rose and I extend our condolences to her family and loved ones.”
“We just had a record cold winter. We're running out of gas. Our bases are running out of gas. The world is in chaos.”
“The legislation replaces the traditional property tax system with a predictable, volume-based tax framework for natural gas transported through the Alaska LNG pipeline, helping strengthen the project's competitiveness while providing long-term certainty for communities, investors and project partners.”
“has got to be”
“We have a very cold spring. Normally we'd be in summer right now”
“We are running out of gas right out the window here in Cook Inlet. We've known this since at least the mid-2000s”
“I want to thank hilcorp I want to thank Hex and others that are trying to get more gas out of the inlet. But it's a very, very mature basin and the hope that we're going to stumble upon something large there, according to our people, is slim.”
“which translates somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 cents a kilowatt-hour.”
“I know we have solar panels further north. I know they're in Fairbanks. You see them everywhere. And I know they're in Kotzebue now, which is above the Arctic Circle”
“we're running out of gas in the very inlet in which we pioneered LNG export. Right out the window here, we're running out of gas.”
“We have a very cold spring. Normally we'd be in summer right now that a very cold spring. We had a cold winter in Fairbanks, Alaska, record cold temperatures, record cold temperature here in March, I believe, and record snows in January.”
“It's all embedded in our Constitution. It's all embedded in, um, our, our major, our major laws and our major policies that then feed into that, as you say.”
“that enormous amount of gas would enable us to get incredibly low prices, relatively speaking, here in-state in Alaska, which would reduce, as opposed to what's happening in other parts of the country, reduce the cost of energy for Alaskans. For the long term.”
“I may be the only governor in the country that has a 50-panel array, solar array, at my residence. And I can tell you from my own experience, even in the shortest day of the year, December 21st, especially up here in Alaska, we generate electricity.”
“He's been the best president for the state of Alaska ever.”
“Immediate. It's 1 hour after. You can't do it any later than 1 hour after adjournment. There will be a special session.”
“I've never seen more opportunity come out of an administration that has come out of this administration and a better partnership than what we have with the federal government.”
“It's been nothing short of amazing.”
“if everything works out and there's no problems, we will probably be looking at over 900,000 barrels here in the next 10 to 12 years.”
“you just heard that the RCA said that we need to increase the charge, the rail belts, that the rail belts can charge for energy, electricity, that it's going to impact rural Alaska. This is not going to get better.”
“You might go from $10 a unit gas in the lower 48 or Canada quickly to 12, 14, 15, 16, $18 gas. And what does that mean? You're looking at 35 to 45 cents a kilowatt hour five to 10 years from now on the rail belt”
“If you were to say to me, Dunleavy, what's the most important thing that can happen in this session? It's this PILT by far, bar none. This would be the largest project in Alaska history, probably the largest in the Arctic, in the Pacific.”