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Speaker B
395:02 - 396:02
"City of Kenai is going to be ground zero for this thing. I don't think there's going to be another community in the state of Alaska that's going to be as impacted as this one. And it was like a light bulb went off for some legislators when they're like— they don't know where Kenai is in relation to where the liquefaction plant's going to be and the fact that It's just outside our municipal boundaries, so no tax revenue will come."
“City of Kenai is going to be ground zero for this thing. I don't think there's going to be another community in the state of Alaska that's going to be as impacted as this one. And it was like a light bulb went off for some legislators when they're like— they don't know where Kenai is in relation to where the liquefaction plant's going to be and the fact that It's just outside our municipal boundaries, so no tax revenue will come.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 395:02 – 396:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 2, 2026
From the transcript
You know, here's our community survey and taking the results of that and putting it to work and interpreting that and changing policies as we get that type of information. And lastly, I think like the future consideration, this LNG project, and as it starts to get closer and closer and closer to some key decision points, I testified at the legislature, what, a week and a half, two weeks ago. City of Kenai is going to be ground zero for this thing. I don't think there's going to be another community in the state of Alaska that's going to be as impacted as this one. And it was like a light bulb went off for some legislators when they're like— they don't know where Kenai is in relation to where the liquefaction plant's going to be and the fact that It's just outside our municipal boundaries, so no tax revenue will come.
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